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Trust the Process
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The United States is navigating a new paradigm of competition, one that centers not merely on traditional measures of military might, but on technology innovation and its cont...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Ainikki Riikonen
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War Powers: What Are They Good For?
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Congressional aspirations to equal partnership in the conduct of American conflicts have long gone unsatisfied....
By Richard Fontaine, Loren DeJonge Schulman & Stephen Tankel
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Working Case Study: Congress’s Oversight of the Tongo Tongo, Niger, Ambush
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There was no question that U.S. forces under attack should be in a position to defend themselves. But the larger question was what sort of mission had placed them in this circ...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Working Case Study: Congress and the Iraq Surge
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The intensive campaign employed by John McCain and his allies is an important case of how members of Congress can influence executive decisions on the conduct of military oper...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Working Case Study: Congressional Influence on the Decision to Intervene in Somalia
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Contrary to conventional wisdom, television news did not drive U.S. policy toward Somalia; U.S. lawmakers provided the impetus and credibility for coverage....
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Congress’s Hidden Strengths
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Introduction On matters of peace and war, virtually no one seems satisfied with Congress. Constitutionally coequal to the executive, the Congress often appears more an uneasy ...
By Richard Fontaine & Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Rising to the China Challenge
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The United States and China are locked in strategic competition over the future of the Indo-Pacific—the most populous, dynamic, and consequential region in the world....
By Ely Ratner, Daniel Kliman, Susanna V. Blume, Rush Doshi, Chris Dougherty, Richard Fontaine, Peter Harrell, Martijn Rasser, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Eric Sayers, Daleep Singh, Paul Scharre, Loren DeJonge Schulman, Neil Bhatiya, Ashley Feng, Joshua Fitt, Megan Lamberth, Kristine Lee & Ainikki Riikonen
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New Voices in Grand Strategy
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Foreword In June 2008, the Center for a New American Security published a compendium of essays to grapple with the central questions of American grand strategy.1 The volume co...
By Richard Fontaine, Loren DeJonge Schulman, Emma Ashford, Hal Brands, Jasen J. Castillo, Kate Kizer, Rebecca Friedman Lissner, Jeremy Shapiro & Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson
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Behind The Magical Thinking
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Executive Summary Drones’ greatest attraction for the national security world is that they create options where there were none – or none at a cost policymakers feel comfortab...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Weird Birds: Working Paper on Policymaker Perspectives on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Their Impact on National Security Decision-Making
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1.INTRODUCTION No movie about a national security crisis would be complete without a darkened room displaying a blinking screen of real-time military assets as angry advisors ...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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12 Months In – 8 Months Left: An Update on Secretary Carter’s Innovation Agenda
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CNAS experts Ben FitzGerald and Loren DeJonge Schulman examine whether the innovation efforts underway have the potential to achieve the reform Defense Secretary Carter seeks....
By Ben FitzGerald & Loren DeJonge Schulman
