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How the United States Can Get More Strategic Bang For Its Force Structure Buck
Commentary
Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis released an unclassified summary of the new National Defense Strategy two weeks ago. The big news in the strategy is a front-and-center focus o...
By Susanna V. Blume
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There Is No NATO without the North Atlantic
Commentary
NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, has a problem in the North Atlantic. It is not prepared for Russian aggression, at either the strategic or the tactical level. Th...
By Jerry Hendrix
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The US Navy’s New Frigate Should Jumpstart a Revitalization of the Defense Industrial Base
Commentary
The United States Navy requires a frigate. Building this warship will strengthen our depleted naval fleet and reenergize a vital sector of the nation’s defense industrial base...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Trump and His Strategy of Ambiguity
Commentary
President Donald Trump’s rhetoric has shocked the diplomatic world. His size-of-nuclear-button tweets, his observation that China had been caught “red-handed” giving illegal a...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Countering Entropy in the New Year
Commentary
In a year-end summary, one of our nation’s major weekly news publications recently tweeted that one of its most-read articles featured former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbache...
By Jerry Hendrix
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From 'flags and footprints' to having a routine presence in space
Commentary
President Trump’s signing of Space Policy Directive 1 once again gives NASA a mission adjustment and beneficial goals. The directive recommits NASA to: “Lead an innovative and...
By Adam Routh
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In a Chess Game with Putin, the Polish City of Gdansk Is Our Queen
Commentary
ladimir Putin is playing a vast chess game with NATO, and his next move is to invade the Baltic nations. When this happens, the United States will need to move armored forces ...
By Jerry Hendrix
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What Does a Government Shutdown Mean for the Department of Defense?
Commentary
What happens to the Defense Department when the federal government shuts down? I can shed some light on this; in October 2013, I was a DoD civilian charged with helping to ens...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Trump’s New National-Security Strategy Projects Confidence
Commentary
President Trump today unveiled his new National Security Strategy (NSS), exceeding the expectations of the national-security community by producing a remarkably coherent NSS w...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Congress Mandates New DoD Study Central to Understanding TBI
Commentary
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the signature wound of today's conflicts, affecting more than 370,000 service members, and emerging evidence suggests troops may be exposed to ...
By Lauren Fish & Paul Scharre
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China Mistakenly Challenges Andrew Jackson to a Duel
Commentary
The United States Navy will be making a port call in Taiwan in the near future. The only questions that remain are where, when, and how many ships of what type will drop ancho...
By Jerry Hendrix
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How Many Battles Can the Pentagon Fight in Washington at Once?
Commentary
Agenda SecDef relaunched earlier this year with advice for then-new Secretary James Mattis, warning against the demands of unreasonable expectations in order to focus on five ...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Lauren Fish
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Congress, cut the continuing resolutions so Defense can do its job
Commentary
As we once again find ourselves hurtling towards the expiration of yet another continuing resolution at the end of this week, with no long-term budget deal in sight, it seems ...
By Susanna V. Blume & Lauren Fish
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Evening in America?
Commentary
This past weekend marked the annual Reagan National Defense Forum, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. It was the first Forum since the ...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Past Problems Can't Stop the U.S. Navy From Building a New Frigate
Commentary
The United States Navy should not take council from its fears when it comes to the design of its new frigate. While it is true that technical challenges and cost overruns asso...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Three new reports add clarity to Australia’s space sector, a ‘crowded and valuable high ground’
Commentary
Australia seems on the brink of embracing space in a coordinated manner, but how should we do it? This week, the Australian government released three reports to help chart the...
By Anthony Wicht
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Cyber and Space Weapons Are Making Nuclear Deterrence Trickier
Commentary
Stability was an overriding concern at last week’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on nuclear command authority, the first in four decades. Senators wondered aloud ...
By Richard Fontaine & James N. Miller, Jr.
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Eric Fanning and Susanna V. Blume talk NDAA, DoD Budget
Podcast
Eric Fanning, former Secretary of the Army, and CNAS fellow Susanna Blume talk about the NDAA, DoD budget, and acquisition reform....
By Eric Fanning & Susanna V. Blume
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Is the U.S. ready for China’s ‘space militias’?
Commentary
Economic interests in space continue to rise. In 2016 the global space economy represented $329 billion, and 76 percent of the total was produced through commercial efforts. W...
By Adam Routh
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All the Bombs in the World Won't Solve the North Korea Crisis (It Will Only Make It Worse)
Commentary
In comments recently delivered at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser Herbert Raymond “H.R.” McMaster reaffirmed the ...
By Nicholas Blanchette & Benjamin Rimland
