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Full Metal Podcast: Are those live nukes?
Podcast
This week on Full Metal Podcast the defense team discusses Trump's purposed meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, and Jerry speaks with Congressman Jim Banks (IN-03) o...
By Jerry Hendrix, Susanna V. Blume, Lauren Fish, Adam Routh & Jim Banks
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For the Navy, Strike Capability Should Be Top Priority
Commentary
The United States Navy needs to make some hard choices if it wishes to remain relevant in the Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2AD) security environment that lies ahead of it. It mus...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Lessons for the Navy from SpaceX and the Commercial Sector
Commentary
The United States Navy has a goal of increasing its fleet from its current inventory of 280 ships to 355, but its recently released 30-year shipbuilding plan does not reach th...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Full Metal Podcast: Show Me the Money
Podcast
This week on Full Metal Podcast, the CNAS defense team talks all things budget. First, the team discusses details of the newly released President's budget for fiscal year 2019...
By Adam Routh, Jerry Hendrix & Lauren Fish
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Safety Analysis of Leishmania Vaccine Used in a Randomized Canine Vaccine/Immunotherapy Trial
In Leishmania infantum–endemic countries, controlling infection within dogs, the domestic reservoir, is critical to public health. There is a need for safe vaccines that preve...
By Molly Parrish
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Space Exploration Could Be the Key to America’s Renewal
Commentary
History is replete with examples of great nations sliding slowly into decline. Six hundred years ago, Ming Dynasty China sent Admiral Zheng He on seven voyages throughout the ...
By Jerry Hendrix
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We Must Shock-Test the USS Gerald R. Ford
Earlier this month the U.S. Navy submitted a request to Secretary of Defense Mattis to postpone the planned shock testing of the USS Gerald R. Ford, the new Ford-class super c...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Handicapping the Navy’s Frigate Competition
The horses in a major new defense-acquisition program are approaching the starting gate, but it’s not too late to handicap the race and place bets on the eventual winner. The ...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Averting the U.S.-Russia Warpath
Commentary
For nearly twenty years following the end of the Cold War, military confrontation between the United States and the Russian Federation seemed implausible. Even during periods ...
By Richard Fontaine, Alexander Velez-Green & James N. Miller, Jr.
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The True Cost of Trump’s National Defense Strategy
Commentary
On January 20, the U.S. Department of Defense released the Trump administration’s National Defense Strategy, followed nearly a month later by the president’s budget request fo...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Achieving a 355-Ship Navy ‘Before This Decade Is Out’
Commentary
The Navy’s 30-year shipbuilding plan falls short of the strategic imperative. In 1961 President John F. Kennedy challenged the nation with a great goal: “I believe that this n...
By Jerry Hendrix
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On Parades and Politics
Commentary
Last year President Donald Trump traveled to Paris to attend the Bastille Day parade as a guest of President Macron. He was very impressed with what he saw. In January, report...
By Jerry Hendrix
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The new defense budget: what you need to know
Commentary
The budget agreement finally reached by Congress last Friday provides around $700 billion for national defense in fiscal years 2018 and 2019, an allocation in line with Presid...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Don’t Retire Our Stealth Bombers
Commentary
When a local community government has trouble getting its books to balance or it simply desires additional tax revenue to expand local government, but it does not have support...
By Jerry Hendrix
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With China, Russia looming, SpaceX launch is about more than Mars
Commentary
SpaceX has reached another milestone with the successful launch of Falcon Heavy. The launch is another example of the organization’s persistent ability to innovate and push ma...
By Adam Routh
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When Putin Invades the Baltics
Commentary
Vladimir Putin is playing a vast chess game with NATO, and his next move will be to invade the Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. When this happens, the United ...
By Jerry Hendrix
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NASA Needs a Politician More Than a Scientist for Its Chief
Commentary
NASA is still in search of an Administrator. While Rep. Jim Bridenstine awaits the full Senate vote, it would be useful to think through the qualities that are necessary to be...
By Adam Routh
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Too Many Secrets
Commentary
Last week’s decision by House Intelligence Committee Republicans and the White House to declassify a misleading, politically charged memo about evidence in the Russia investig...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Ilan Goldenberg
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Full Metal Podcast: What is your major malfunction, 3rd Offset?
Podcast
In the inaugural Full Metal Podcast episode, the CNAS defense team discusses the status of the 3rd Offset Strategy, the National Security and National Defense Strategies, and ...
By Jerry Hendrix, Lauren Fish & Adam Routh
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Succeed or Fail, the Falcon Heavy Launch is Good for America
Commentary
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy is set to launch today for the first time. According to SpaceX, the heavy lift vehicle “will be the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a fa...
By Jerry Hendrix & Adam Routh
