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Finding Our Way: Debating American Grand Strategy
In a critical election year, the debate over America’s national security strategy has been overwhelmed by a persistent focus on essentially tactical issues such as: the number...
By Michèle Flournoy, Shawn Brimley & Vikram J. Singh
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Making America Grand Again: Toward a New Grand Strategy
Years of debate over the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and the so-called “war on terror” have prevented Americans from grappling with the deeper challenges posed by changes in the...
By Michèle Flournoy, Shawn Brimley & Vikram J. Singh
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A Strategy for American Power: Energy, Climate, and National Security
To protect the American way of life and secure the future, the United States needs an energy security strategy that will cut both our dependence on oil and our greenhouse gas ...
By Christine Parthemore, Joshua Busby & Sharon E. Burke
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Shaping the Iraq Inheritance
American policy in Iraq will undergo two critical transitions throughout the remainder of 2008 and into early 2009: movement to a new U.S. posture in Iraq; and a wartime trans...
By Colin H. Kahl, Michèle Flournoy & Shawn Brimley
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Unfinished Business: U.S. Overseas Military Presence in the 21st Century
The next American president will inherit an overseas military base realignment process begun in the first term of the George W. Bush administration. This realignment, guided b...
By Michael O’Hanlon
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Strategic Questions for Generals Petraeus and Odierno
As Generals Petraeus and Odierno appear before Congress this week, CNAS has drafted several key questions we feel are among the most vital to ask. As the 2008 presidential ele...
By Michèle Flournoy, Shawn Brimley & Vikram J. Singh
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Anecdotal Evidence of a Hollowing Force? A Closer Look at Junior Officer Retention
Today’s Army is “the most combat-experienced force the nation has witnessed in two generations. Our all-volunteer force is being asked to do more than ever and is showing rema...
By Jaron Wharton
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U.S.-South Korea Relations: Rekindling an Alliance Flame
The honeymoon between Washington and Seoul will not last long without more harmony on the most important issue for the relationship: North Korean denuclearization....
By Nirav Patel & Vikram J. Singh
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Sustainable Security: Developing a Security Strategy for the Long Haul
The inability of many states in the developing world to govern and police themselves effectively or to work collectively with their neighbors to secure their regions represen...
By Jim Thomas
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The Case for Conditional Engagement in Iraq
Five years into the war in Iraq with no end in sight, a new strategy is needed. The current strategy of unconditional support to Iraq’s central government has not produced nea...
By Colin H. Kahl & Shawn Brimley
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The Age of Consequences
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Global climate change poses not only environmental hazards but profound risks to planetary peace and stability as well. For the past year, CNAS and CSIS convened a diverse gro...
By Christine Parthemore, Jay Gulledge, Julianne Smith, Richard Weitz & Whitney M. Parker
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Measuring Progress in Iraq
Nobody seems to know how to talk about and evaluate “progress” in Iraq, or the lack thereof. In the context of the confusion, progress should be evaluated along several dimens...
By Colin H. Kahl
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Shaping U.S. Ground Forces for the Future
America’s ground forces — the U.S. Army, Marine Corps, and Special Operations Forces (SOF) — are under severe strain. Sustaining a high operational tempo has required repeated...
By Michèle Flournoy & Tammy Schultz
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The Left-Hand Side of the Spectrum
The development and maintenance of an advisory capacity in the military is not strictly a decision for the armed services themselves. The legislative and interagency environme...
By USA (Ret.) & Robert Killebrew
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Institutionalizing Adaptation
The most important military component of the Long War will not be the fighting we do ourselves, but how well we enable and empower our allies to fight with us. After describin...
By John A. Nagl
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Phased Transition
The U.S. military will withdraw from Iraq; the question is when and under what conditions. This report will provide a realistic appraisal of America’s enduring interests in Ir...
By James N. Miller & Shawn Brimley
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The Inheritance and the Way Forward
This essay explores the complex nature of the next president’s national security inheritance and offers recommendations for how the next president should begin to chart a new ...
By Kurt Campbell & Michèle Flournoy
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After an Attack
Responses to a catastrophic bioterror attack are likely to greatly amplify or substantially mitigate the attack’s consequences. No less significant, if our post-attack respons...
By Philipp Bleek, Rachel Kleinfeld & Richard Danzig
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Enduring U.S. Interests in Iraq
Even as forces in Iraq are drawn down, the U.S. has enduring interests in that besieged country and the surrounding region, and these interests will require a significant mili...
By Michèle Flournoy & Shawn Brimley
