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Fair Winds and Following Seas to Dr. Jerry Hendrix
Podcast
On the latest episode, the team chats topics ranging from acquisition to Zumwalts. In addition to special guest Frank Kendall, former Under Secretary of Defense for ...
By Susanna V. Blume, Jerry Hendrix, Adam Routh, Lauren Fish & Frank Kendall
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CNAS’ Hendrix, Routh on ‘Building the Future Force’ Report, Future-Force Planning
Video
Jerry Hendrix, PhD, Defense Program director and senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, and Adam Routh, a research associate with the program, discuss CNAS’&...
By Jerry Hendrix & Adam Routh
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How to Make the U.S. Navy Great Again
Commentary
ALONE AMONG the services, the Navy is always deployed. In wartime, all of the services deploy. In peacetime, the Army and Air Force train and exercise but do not deploy persis...
By Jerry Hendrix
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It's a Space Renaissance!
Podcast
This week the team discusses forward basing ships in the Baltic and Black seas and the MQ-25 acquisition. And Former Secretary of the Air Force, The Honorable Deborah Lee Jame...
By Susanna V. Blume, Jerry Hendrix, Adam Routh, Lauren Fish & Deborah Lee James
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A Balanced Defense
Commentary
When President Trump signed the 2018 omnibus spending bill, he committed the nation to a two-year, $1.416 trillion defense-spending plan, but his signature did not answer the ...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Readiness? Ready for what?
Podcast
This week, the team chats the new National Security Advisor, the 2018 Omnibus, and the White House's National Space Strategy. Also, Susanna discusses military readin...
By Susanna V. Blume, Jerry Hendrix, Lauren Fish, Adam Routh, Laura Junor & Lacey Raymond
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Send Navy Ships to the Baltic and Black Seas
Commentary
Forward-deployed” American naval forces — those that have home ports outside the United States, such as the forces currently based in Japan and Spain — have provided great str...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Donald Trump and the Art of Strategic Ambiguity
Commentary
Donald Trump has disturbed the world. His policy of strategic ambiguity has destabilized friends and foes alike. It has forced enemies such as North Korea to the bargaining ta...
By Jerry Hendrix
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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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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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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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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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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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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
