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Risky Business: Future Strategy and Force Options for the Defense Department
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To consider the next defense strategy and the tradeoffs associated with different options, we developed three possible strategies—high-end deterrence, day-to-day competition, ...
By Stacie Pettyjohn, Becca Wasser & Jennie Matuschak
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The Labyrinth Within
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The current austere fiscal environment has brought the debate over the defense budget to the forefront of policymakers’ agendas. Technical terminology once deemed irrelevant f...
By Michelle Shevin-Coetzee
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Beyond the QDR: Key Issues Facing the National Defense Panel
In 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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CTRL + ALT + DELETE: Resetting America's Military
In 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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Gambling with Ground Forces: The 2015 Defense Budget and The 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review
In 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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The Carrier Air Wing of the Future
Written 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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The Enduring Need for Electronic Attack in Air Operations
CNAS 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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Building Better Generals
In 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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Countdown to Sequestration: Why American Leaders Could Jump Off the Fiscal Cliff
With a comprehensive "grand bargain" agreement on taxes and spending unlikely to succeed in the lame duck session, there is a strong possibility that sequestration will commen...
By Jacob Stokes, Joel Smith, Nora Bensahel, David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Military Campaigns: Veterans’ Endorsements and Presidential Elections
In Military Campaigns: Veterans' Endorsements and Presidential Elections, published by the Center for a New American Security, experts Dr. James Golby, Assistant Professor at ...
By James Golby, Kyle Dropp & Peter Feaver
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Down Payment: Defense Guidance, 2013 Defense Budget and the Risks of Sequestration
The Pentagon’s new strategic guidance and fiscal year 2013 budget request avoid major disruptions to current U.S. defense plans, but they make only a down payment on the defen...
By Travis Sharp
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Driving in the Dark: Ten Propositions About Prediction and National Security
In Driving in the Dark: Ten Propositions About Prediction and National Security, Richard Danzig examines the nature of prediction in national security and offers strategic rec...
By Richard Danzig
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Hard Choices: Responsible Defense in an Age of Austerity
Hard Choices: Responsible Defense in an Age of Austerity, a report authored by CNAS experts LTG David W. Barno, USA (Ret.), Dr. Nora Bensahel and Travis Sharp, outlines four b...
By Nora Bensahel, Travis Sharp, David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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The Sacrifice Ahead: The 2012 Defense Budget
The fiscal year 2012 defense budget request is a break from the past ten years of budget growth, but it does not go far enough to rebalance defense spending priorities given t...
By Travis Sharp
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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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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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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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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
