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Fireside Chat with The Honorable David L. Norquist
On May 30, the Center welcomed The Honorable David L. Norquist for a conversation on the 2020 Defense Budget Request with Susanna V. Blume. Their discussion focused on whether...
By Susanna V. Blume & David L. Norquist
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F-15EX and F-35A: The Future of American Air Superiority
Commentary
When the Air Force chief of staff and secretary confirmed that the service’s budget request for Fiscal Year 2020 would include money for F-15EX aircraft, they kicked off a mas...
By Lt Col Brad Orgeron
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What Congress Should Do with the 2020 Defense Budget
Commentary
Summary There are many things that the administration’s 2020 defense budget request gets right. However, the proposal remains too focused on both the size of the joint force a...
By Susanna V. Blume
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America's New Defense Strategy
Video
On May 17, 2019, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) and Foreign Policy (FP) welcomed visitors for an on-the-record discussion between CNAS Defense Program Director ...
By Elbridge Colby & Evan Thomas
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How to Win America's Next War
The era of untrammeled U.S. military superiority is over. If the United States delays implementing a new approach, it risks losing a war to China or Russia—or backing down in ...
By Elbridge Colby
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US helps those who help themselves
Commentary
The threat to Taiwan from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is increasing — sharply. Beijing is putting the nation under tremendous political pressure, but the military thr...
By Elbridge Colby
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What Does German History Actually Say About German Defense Spending?
Few aspects are more sensitive in Germany’s fraught relationship with history than the role and status of its military. Indeed, many Germans seem to think that, given its past...
By Elbridge Colby
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Measures of Power
Andrew Walter Marshall, a former strategist at the RAND Corporation who served as head of the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment from its founding in 1973 until his retiremen...
By Dr. Andrew Krepinevich, Jr.
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Elbridge Colby on Atlantik-Brücke Podcast
Podcast
Elbridge Colby, Director of the Defense Program at the Center for a New American Security, regards China and Russia as biggest security policy threats for the USA. Germany sho...
By Elbridge Colby
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Measuring money spent in advancing the National Defense Strategy
Video
Chris Dougherty, senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, discusses DoD spending with regards to advancing the National Defense Strategy, as well as upcoming a...
By Chris Dougherty
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Implementing the National Defense Strategy Demands Operational Concepts for Defeating Chinese and Russian Aggression
Commentary
Summary The 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS) shifted the Department of Defense (DoD) away from a strategy focused on counterterrorism and deterring regional threats like I...
By Chris Dougherty
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Transcript: How the U.S. Military Fights Wars Today and In the Future
CENTER FOR A NEW AMERICAN SECURITY DEFENSE PROGRAM “HOW THE U.S. MILITARY FIGHTS WARS TODAY AND IN THE FUTURE” March, 07, 2019 – 08:18 a.m. ET PANEL MEMBERS SUSANNA BLU...
By Susanna V. Blume, Robert O. Work, Chris Dougherty & David Ochmanek
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‘How Is Yoda?’: An Appreciation Of Andy Marshall
Last year while in Japan for a meeting with senior defense and military leaders, the question most often posed to me was, “How is Yoda?” The questions were in reference to th...
By Dr. Andrew Krepinevich, Jr.
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To Remind You of My Love: Reforming the Impulsive Affection of U.S. Efforts to Build Partner Militaries
Commentary
The movie Downfall, about the final days of Adolf Hitler, contains a scene that has been turned into countless memes with various subtitles. In the original, Hitler learns tha...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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WOTR Podcast: Civil-Military Relations Gone Wild?
Podcast
Debates over civil-military relations have reached a fever pitch since the 2016 presidential campaign and the beginning of the Trump administration. Many have focused on the t...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman, Steven Foster, Alice Hunt Friend & Ryan Evans
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Sayers and Colby at The Heritage Foundation: The Indo-Pacific after INF
Podcast
After six years of failed attempts to get Russia to return to compliance with the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty obligations, the U.S. officially announced its...
By Elbridge Colby, Eric Sayers & Jeff M. Smith
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CNAS’ Dougherty on New American Way of War Project
Video
Chris Dougherty, one of the authors of the Pentagon’s National Defense Strategy who is now a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, discusses the think tank’...
By Chris Dougherty
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Is the Pentagon Truly Committed to the National Defense Strategy?
Commentary
As Senate and House committees examine the Trump administration’s proposed defense budget for fiscal 2020 — it totals three-quarters of a trillion dollars — the first and most...
By Elbridge Colby & James N. Miller, Jr.
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Take India’s Side, America
The moment of maximum danger in the latest India-Pakistan conflict appears to have passed. But after a major attack by Pakistani militants on an Indian military base in Kashmi...
By Elbridge Colby
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Defense Budget Masterpiece
In December of 2017, before the Department of Defense released its 2019 budget request, then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan tried to manage expectations about it...
By Susanna V. Blume & Chris Dougherty
