Reports
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To Serve the Nation: U.S. Special Operations Forces in an Era of Persistent Conflict
U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) are currently experiencing their most extensive use and greatest transformation, yet are still not optimized for success. This report exam...
By Michele L. Malvesti
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America’s Extended Hand: Assessing the Obama Administration’s Global Engagement Strategy
This report offers an assessment of the Obama Administration's public engagement strategy by analyzing the public engagement dimension of key foreign policy areas and in count...
By Kristin M. Lord & Marc Lynch
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Leverage: Designing a Political Campaign for Afghanistan
This report notes that America's counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan has focused more on waging war at the operational and tactical levels at the expense of the strategi...
By Andrew M. Exum
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Broadening Horizons: Climate Change and the U.S. Armed Forces
Broadening Horizons is an edited volume featuring four chapters and a capstone piece that explores the dual pressures of climate change and energy on each U.S. military servic...
By Christine Parthemore, Herbert Carmen & Will Rogers
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Lost in Translation: Closing the Gap Between Climate Science and National Security Policy
This report explores the gap between the science and policy communities and offers recommendations for how they can work together to ensure the United States can effectively p...
By Jay Gulledge & Will Rogers
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CNAS Capstone - Broadening Horizons: Climate Change and the U.S. Armed Forces
The Broadening Horizons capstone report, authored by CNAS Senior Military Fellow Commander Herbert E. Carmen, USN, CNAS Bacevich Fellow Christine Parthemore and CNAS Research ...
By Christine Parthemore, Herbert Carmen & Will Rogers
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On the Front Lines: Climate Change and the Combatant Commands
In this working paper, CNAS Senior Military Fellow Commander Herbert E. Carmen, USN, CNAS Bacevich Fellow Christine Parthemore and CNAS Research Assistant Will Rogers focus on...
By Christine Parthemore, Herbert Carmen & Will Rogers
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Promoting the Dialogue: Climate Change and America's Air Forces
In this working paper, CNAS Research Assistant Will Rogers synthesizes how America’s air forces are considering climate change, identifies the role energy concerns play in the...
By Will Rogers
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Security for Peace: Setting the Conditions for a Palestinian State
This report extracts lessons learned from other peacekeeping operations that could be applicable to defend a two-state solution in the Middle East....
By Andrew M. Exum, Marc Lynch, USA (Ret.) & Robert Killebrew
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The Economic Imperative: Stabilizing Afghanistan Through Economic Growth
This policy brief argues that smart execution of the American strategy in Afghanistan depends on tapping into Afghanistan’s economic potential and empowering Afghans to foster...
By Clare Lockhart & Nathaniel C. Fick
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Promoting the Dialogue: Climate Change and U.S. Ground Forces
In this working paper, CNAS Bacevich Fellow Christine Parthemore identifies important aspects of what the effects of climate change could mean for U.S. ground forces, and high...
By Christine Parthemore
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Promoting the Dialogue: Climate Change and the Maritime Services
In this working paper, CNAS Bacevich Fellow Christine Parthemore synthesizes how the maritime services are thinking about climate change and assesses potential policy implicat...
By Christine Parthemore
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Going Global: The Future of the U.S.-South Korea Alliance
February 2009 - The United States and the Republic of Korea (ROK) have one of the most formidable and durable military alliances in the world. This alliance has preserved peac...
By Lindsey Ford
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The Burden: America's Hard Choices in Post-Election Iraq
In this policy brief, CNAS Senior Fellow Tom Ricks argues that U.S. and Iraqi policymakers should go back to the drawing board and find a solution that prevents Iraq from unra...
By Thomas E. Ricks
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Arsenal's End? American Power and the Global Defense Industry
Using the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter program as a case study, this report analyzes how globalization has affected the American defense industry and its consequence...
By Ethan B. Kapstein
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CORDS and the Whole of Government Approach
February 4, 2010 - In a grand prize-winning piece for Small Wars Journal, CNAS Non-Resident Senior Fellow Richard Weitz argues that the U.S. government should have paid greate...
By Richard Weitz
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Keeping the Edge: Revitalizing America's Military Officer Corps
This report provides an analysis of the nature of U.S. military officership in a new strategic environment and provides recomendations for how the United States can keep its e...
By Brian Burton & John A. Nagl
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Vision Meets Reality: 2010 QDR and 2011 Defense Budget
This policy brief provides an analysis of the FY 2011 defense budget request, places it in the context of the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review and historical budgetary trends, ...
By Travis Sharp
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Contested Commons: The Future of American Power in a Multipolar World
Contested Commons is an edited volume featuring five chapters and a capstone piece on the future of American power in the sea, air, space and cyberspace. Authors include CNAS ...
By Abraham M. Denmark & Robert D. Kaplan
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CNAS Capstone - Contested Commons: The Future of American Power in a Multipolar World
The Contested Commons capstone report, authored by CNAS Fellow Abraham M. Denmark and Dr. James Mulvenon, provides an overview of the future of American power in a multipolar ...
By Abraham M. Denmark