Reports
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Going Global: The Future of the U.S.-South Korea Alliance
February 2009 - The United States and the Republic of Korea (ROK) have one of the most formidable and durable military alliances in the world. This alliance has preserved peac...
By Lindsey Ford
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The Burden: America's Hard Choices in Post-Election Iraq
In this policy brief, CNAS Senior Fellow Tom Ricks argues that U.S. and Iraqi policymakers should go back to the drawing board and find a solution that prevents Iraq from unra...
By Thomas E. Ricks
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Arsenal's End? American Power and the Global Defense Industry
Using the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter program as a case study, this report analyzes how globalization has affected the American defense industry and its consequence...
By Ethan B. Kapstein
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CORDS and the Whole of Government Approach
February 4, 2010 - In a grand prize-winning piece for Small Wars Journal, CNAS Non-Resident Senior Fellow Richard Weitz argues that the U.S. government should have paid greate...
By Richard Weitz
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Keeping the Edge: Revitalizing America's Military Officer Corps
This report provides an analysis of the nature of U.S. military officership in a new strategic environment and provides recomendations for how the United States can keep its e...
By Brian Burton & John A. Nagl
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Vision Meets Reality: 2010 QDR and 2011 Defense Budget
This policy brief provides an analysis of the FY 2011 defense budget request, places it in the context of the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review and historical budgetary trends, ...
By Travis Sharp
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Contested Commons: The Future of American Power in a Multipolar World
Contested Commons is an edited volume featuring five chapters and a capstone piece on the future of American power in the sea, air, space and cyberspace. Authors include CNAS ...
By Abraham M. Denmark & Robert D. Kaplan
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CNAS Capstone - Contested Commons: The Future of American Power in a Multipolar World
The Contested Commons capstone report, authored by CNAS Fellow Abraham M. Denmark and Dr. James Mulvenon, provides an overview of the future of American power in a multipolar ...
By Abraham M. Denmark
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Promoting the Dialogue: Climate Change and the Quadrennial Defense Review
In this working paper, CNAS Bacevich Fellow Christine Parthemore and Research Assistant Will Rogers provide observations about how the Department of Defense incorporated clima...
By Christine Parthemore & Will Rogers
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Learning from Experience: Lessons from the QDR for the QDDR
To help inform the State Department's Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR), this policy brief lays out lessons learned from the Department of Defense’s Quadrenn...
By Brian Burton
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Engaging the Private Sector for the Public Good: The Power of Network Diplomacy
This policy brief makes a compelling case for how the State Department could embrace network diplomacy by creating an independent organization – called USA•World Trust – that ...
By Kristin M. Lord
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Fixing Intel: A Blueprint for Making Intelligence Relevant in Afghanistan
This report critically examines the relevance of the U.S. intelligence community to the counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan and provides a blueprint for how the United S...
By Matt Pottinger, Michael T. Flynn & Paul D. Batchelor
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Time for Action: Redefining SOF Missions and Activities
U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) have played a key role in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as in the broader U.S. effort to destroy al Qaeda and its violent extr...
By Michele L. Malvesti
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Contractors in American Conflicts: Adapting to a New Reality
When our nation goes to war, contractors go with it. This working paper explores the problems posed by the increased reliance of contractors in Afghanistan and Iraq, including...
By John A. Nagl & Richard Fontaine
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Taiwan's Gamble: The Cross-Strait Rapprochement and Its Implications for U.S. Policy
President Obama’s visit to Beijing in November 2009 highlighted several issues of mutual interest and concern for the U.S.-China relationship, yet the fact that Taiwan was not...
By Abraham M. Denmark & Richard Fontaine
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Smart Defense Acquisition: Learning from French Procurement Reform
The demands of rapidly evolving conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan coupled with intense fiscal pressure at home underscore the need to reform U.S. defense acquisition. This pol...
By Ethan B. Kapstein
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On the Knife's Edge: Yemen's Instability and the Threat to American Interests
In this policy brief, CNAS Fellow Andrew Exum and Senior Fellow Richard Fontaine outline the severity of Yemen’s internal security challenges and offer several policy recommen...
By Andrew M. Exum & Richard Fontaine
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Hard Lessons: Navigating Negotiations with the DPRK
This report,authored by CNAS Fellow Abraham Denmark and Research Assistants Zachary Hosford and Michael Zubrow, summarizes obstacles faced in past negotiations with North Kore...
By Abraham M. Denmark, Michael J Zubrow & Zachary Hosford
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CNAS Policy Brief - Afghanistan 2011: Three Scenarios
This brief, authored by CNAS Fellow and U.S. Afghanistan policy expert Andrew Exum, is meant to serve as a guide for strategic Afghanistan policy planning by laying out the wo...
By Andrew M. Exum
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China's Arrival: A Strategic Framework for a Global Relationship
China’s rise is one of the most significant geopolitical events in modern history, with important ramifications for U.S. interests, regional power balances, and the internatio...
By Abraham M. Denmark & Nirav Patel