Part of Defense
The Next Defense Strategy
The Next Defense Strategy focuses on creating broad, bipartisan solutions to the most vexing and longstanding issues that hinder the U.S. Department of Defense from competing more effectively with China and Russia. This project will convene senior defense thinkers from across the defense enterprise to identify and explore areas, such as the roles and missions of the Armed Forces, where change is clearly needed, but has proven politically or bureaucratically impossible.
The CNAS Next Defense Strategy Series
From July to December 2020, CNAS will release new papers every week on the tough issues the next NDS should tackle. The goal of this project is to provide intellectual capital to the drafters of the 2022 NDS, focusing specifically on unfinished business from the past several defense strategies and areas where change is necessary but difficult.
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Highlights
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Beating the Americans at Their Own Game
Reports
China is keenly focused on blunting the U.S. military’s technological superiority, even as it strives to achieve technological parity, and eventually technological dominance....
By Robert O. Work & Greg Grant
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Why America Needs a New Way of War
Reports
For the first time in decades, it is possible to imagine the United States fighting—and possibly losing—a large-scale war with a great power....
By Chris Dougherty
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Strategy or Straitjacket? Three Reasons Why People Are Still Arguing About the National Defense Strategy
Commentary
“It feels so weird to not intervene in the Middle East. I know we’re trying to avoid getting sucked in, but it’s hard to say no.” These were the words my colleague uttered dur...
By Chris Dougherty
