Reports
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National Security Human Capital Program / Middle East Security
U.S. Strategy After the Iran Deal: Seizing Opportunities and Managing RisksAs Iran and the P5+1 close in on the deadline for a deal addressing Iran’s nuclear program, Middle East Security Program Director Ilan Goldenberg makes six core policy recomme...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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National Security Human Capital Program / Technology & National Security
Nuclear Weapons in the Third Offset Strategy: Avoiding a Nuclear Blind Spot in the Pentagon’s New InitiativeRobert M. Gates Fellow Elbridge Colby argues that the Third Offset Strategy focus on how nuclear weapons will factor into the warfighting “regime” the new initiative envisions...
By Elbridge Colby
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National Security Human Capital Program
Military Compensation and Retirement ModernizationPhillip Carter and Katherine Kidder examine the growth of military compensation in the post-Cold War era, from 1990 to 2015, as well as the social contract America has with it...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski & Phillip Carter
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National Security Human Capital Program / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Battlefields and BoardroomsDr. Nora Bensahel, LTG David W. Barno, USA (Ret.), Katherine Kidder, and Kelley Sayler examine the career paths of professional women through the ranks of the U.S. military an...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski, Kelley Sayler, Nora Bensahel & David W. Barno
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National Security Human Capital Program
The Mission Continues: A Case Study of the Well After Service ModelOliver Gould and Aaron Scheinberg from The Mission Continues partnered with Monica Matthieu from the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis to eva...
By Oliver Gould, Aaron Scheinberg, MBS, MPA/ID, Monica Matthieu, L.C.S.W. & Ph.D.
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National Security Human Capital Program
Beyond the QDR: Key Issues Facing the National Defense PanelIn Beyond the QDR: Key Issues Facing the National Defense Panel, Dr. Nora Bensahel, co-director of CNAS' Responsible Defense Program, argues that the NDP should focus on six c...
By Nora Bensahel
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National Security Human Capital Program
CTRL + ALT + DELETE: Resetting America's MilitaryIn the May edition of Foreign Policy, Shawn Brimley and Paul Scharre address the question: "If you built the U.S. Military today from scratch with no historical burdens, how w...
By Shawn Brimley & Paul Scharre
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National Security Human Capital Program
Envisioning Strategic Options: Comparing Alternative Marine Corps StructuresIn "Envisioning Strategic Options," LtCol Frank G. Hoffman, USMCR (Ret.) and Col G. P. Garrett, USMC (Ret.) lay out "some alternative Marine Corps structures to stimulate a de...
By Frank G. Hoffman & G. P. Garrett
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Defense / National Security Human Capital Program
Gambling with Ground Forces: The 2015 Defense Budget and The 2014 Quadrennial Defense ReviewIn a policy brief, Adjunct Fellow Travis Sharp focuses on the implications of prioritizing technology over ground forces in the U.S. army as it relates to the 2015 Defense Bud...
By Travis Sharp
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National Security Human Capital Program
The Carrier Air Wing of the FutureWritten by Senior Fellows and Co-Directors of the Responsible Defense Program LTG David Barno, USA (Ret.) and Dr. Nora Bensahel, and Adjunct Senior Fellow M. Thomas Davis, The...
By Nora Bensahel, Thomas Davis, David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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National Security Human Capital Program
The Enduring Need for Electronic Attack in Air OperationsCNAS adjunct senior fellow Tom Davis and Responsible Defense Program co-directors LTG David W. Barno, USA (Ret) and Dr. Nora Bensahel explore the challenges the U.S. military ...
By Nora Bensahel, Thomas Davis, David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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National Security Human Capital Program
Needs AssessmentSenior Fellow Phillip Carter and Research Associate Katherine Kidder have released a study that examines the struggles that some veterans are confronting in adjusting to civil...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski & Phillip Carter
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National Security Human Capital Program
Expanding the NetAlthough the VA will spend nearly $7 billion this year on mental health care for veterans, CNAS Senior Fellow Phillip Carter argues in Expanding the Net: Building Mental Healt...
By Phillip Carter
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National Security Human Capital Program
Building Better GeneralsIn Building Better Generals, the CNAS Responsible Defense (RD) team urges policymakers and military leaders to redouble their efforts to create an “adaptive and creative offic...
By Katherine Kidder, Kelley Sayler, Nora Bensahel, David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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National Security Human Capital Program
America’s Veterans: A Sound InvestmentLTG William B. Caldwell IV, USA and Major Crispin J. Burke, USA argue that society should leverage the latest generation of men and women leaving the military, and the skills,...
By Crispin J. Burke, William B. Caldwell & IV
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National Security Human Capital Program
Right-Sizing the Force: Lessons for the Current Drawdown of American Military PersonnelFormer Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness and current RAND Corporation Senior Fellow Bernard Rostker argues in the new CNAS working paper Right-Sizing the F...
By Bernard Rostker
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National Security Human Capital Program / Middle East Security
If All Else Fails: The Challenges of Containing a Nuclear-Armed IranDr. Colin H. Kahl, Raj Pattani and Jacob Stokes argue in If All Else Fails: The Challenges of Containing a Nuclear-Armed Iran that the Obama administration could eventually be...
By Colin H. Kahl, Jacob Stokes & Raj Pattani
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National Security Human Capital Program
Atomic Kingdom: If Iran Builds the Bomb, Will Saudi Arabia Be Next?It is taken for granted in Washington that Saudi Arabia will inevitably pursue nuclear weapons if Tehran succeeds in its quest for the bomb. However, CNAS Senior Fellow Colin ...
By Colin H. Kahl, Matthew Irvine & Melissa Dalton
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National Security Human Capital Program
Renewing the Project BioShield Act: What Has It Bought and Wrought?In Renewing the Project BioShield Act: What Has It Bought and Wrought?, Dr. Robert Kadlec, a consultant with RPK Consulting, writes that Project BioShield has achieved its str...
By Robert Kadlec
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National Security Human Capital Program
Aum Shinrikyo – Second Edition – JapaneseIn the Second Edition of the 2011 CNAS report Aum Shinrikyo: Insights Into How Terrorists Develop Biological and Chemical Weapons, the authors provide new analysis of Aum Shin...
By Richard Danzig & Zachary Hosford
