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Interview: Shawn Brimley on This Week in Defense News on DoD budget
By Shawn Brimley
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Reforming the National Security Council: What the Next President Needs to Know
Commentary
Last week, the Washington Post reported that the White House has just finished an extensive internal review and developed a plan to reshape the National Security Council (NSC)...
By Shawn Brimley, Julianne Smith & Jacob Stokes
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Video: 1LT Andrew J. Bacevich, Jr., USA Fellowship
By Jacob Stokes, Katherine Kidder, Michèle Flournoy & Shawn Brimley
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Video: CNAS 2015 Annual Conference - 1Lt Andrew J. Bacevich, Jr., USA, Fellowship Presentation
By Michèle Flournoy & Shawn Brimley
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Video: CNAS 2015 Annual Conference - Opening Remarks & Orienting to the World in 2025
By Michèle Flournoy, Robert D. Kaplan, Shawn Brimley & Jerry Hendrix
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Can Obama Save the GCC Summit?
As President Barack Obama and the leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) sit down at Camp David this week, the White House’s goal is clear: reassure America’s Middle Ea...
By Ilan Goldenberg, Nicholas Heras & Shawn Brimley
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THE NAVY’S NEW MUSEUM DRONE AND STRATEGIC MALPRACTICE
Aviation history was made last week: an unmanned aircraft — the X-47B — successfully completed an air-to-air refueling demonstration, taking 4,000 pounds of fuel from a KC-707...
By Shawn Brimley
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Let’s Lock in the Rebalance to Asia
America’s rebalance to Asia is real today. Whether it endures as a permanent feature of U.S. foreign and defense policy very much depends on the next several years. A bit of m...
By Shawn Brimley & Jerry Hendrix
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Contesting China’s Facts on New Ground
China’s aggressive actions to contest its excessive territorial claims in the South China Sea received a welcome if worrisome dose of realism this month, as new satellite imag...
By Shawn Brimley
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Ash Carter: Invest in the 3rd Offset Strategy
Ashton Carter, the newly confirmed U.S. Secretary of Defense, will need to articulate his vision of how he intends to lead the Pentagon over the next two years. He would do ...
By Paul Scharre, Shawn Brimley & Jerry Hendrix
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Don’t Expect Too Much From Obama’s National Security Strategy
If there’s one notion that unites the national security community these days, it’s that the United States needs strategy. It needs a strategy for defeating the Islamic State, ...
By Richard Fontaine & Shawn Brimley
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Ash Carter Has One Shot To Keep the Pentagon’s Technology Edge
If confirmed as defense secretary, Ashton Carter will need all his abundant experience to tackle the major challenges the Pentagon faces in trying to maintain America’s milita...
By Elbridge Colby & Shawn Brimley
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THE STATE OF THE UNION: THE PRESIDENT STRUCK THE RIGHT TONE
I thought the president’s State of the Union address was well done. It was less a list of specific proposals than the SOTU often is (although there were some), and more an art...
By Shawn Brimley
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Executive Vice President Shawn Brimley before HASC on DOD's Third Offset Strategy
Executive Vice President Shawn Brimley testified before the HASC Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces on The Role of Maritime and Air Power in DoD’s Third Offset Str...
By Shawn Brimley
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Offset Strategies & Warfighting Regimes
Today’s headlines are reinforcing the alarms sounded by defense policymakers and analysts warning of the perils of cuts to the defense budget, the blind meat-axe of sequestrat...
By Shawn Brimley
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To Save the Navy’s Next-Gen Drone, Kill It First
The Defense Department was set to release this summer the final request for proposal for the Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike, or UCLASS, aircraft, b...
By Paul Scharre & Shawn Brimley
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Interview: Shawn Brimley on CNN OutFront discussing ISIS
Read the full transcript of Mr. Brimley's interview here....
By Shawn Brimley
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Getting Unmanned Naval Aviation Right
The issue of when and how the U.S. Armed Forces fully integrate unmanned and increasingly autonomous surveillance and strike platforms into their inventory is one of the most ...
By Shawn Brimley
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Executive Vice President Shawn Brimley before House Armed Services Committee on UCLASS
Executive Vice President and Director of Studies Shawn Brimley testified before the House Committee on Armed Services regarding the Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveill...
By Shawn Brimley
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Video: Eighth Annual Conference: 1Lt Andrew J. Bacevich, Jr., USA, Fellowship Presentation
By Jacob Stokes & Shawn Brimley
