Reports
Showing 21-40 of 66 Publications
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Promoting Strategic Stability in the Midst of Sino-U.S. Competition
Robert M. Gates Senior Fellow Elbridge Colby examines Sino-U.S. competition and nuclear weapons....
By Elbridge Colby
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Iran’s Economic Reintegration: Sanctions Relief, Energy, and Economic Growth Under a Nuclear Agreement with Iran
Senior Fellow Elizabeth Rosenberg and Dr. Sara Vakhshouri, president of SVB Energy International, LLC, lay out how the removal of international sanctions on Iran is likely to ...
By Dr. Sara Vakhshouri & Elizabeth Rosenberg
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U.S. Strategy After the Iran Deal: Seizing Opportunities and Managing Risks
As Iran and the P5+1 close in on the deadline for a deal addressing Iran’s nuclear program, Middle East Security Program Director Ilan Goldenberg makes six core policy recomme...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Nuclear Weapons in the Third Offset Strategy: Avoiding a Nuclear Blind Spot in the Pentagon’s New Initiative
Robert M. Gates Fellow Elbridge Colby argues that the Third Offset Strategy focus on how nuclear weapons will factor into the warfighting “regime” the new initiative envisions...
By Elbridge Colby
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Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization
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Phillip Carter and Katherine Kidder examine the growth of military compensation in the post-Cold War era, from 1990 to 2015, as well as the social contract America has with it...
By Katherine Kidder & Phillip Carter
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Battlefields and Boardrooms
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Dr. Nora Bensahel, LTG David W. Barno, USA (Ret.), Katherine Kidder, and Kelley Sayler examine the career paths of professional women through the ranks of the U.S. military an...
By Katherine Kidder, Kelley Sayler, Nora Bensahel & David W. Barno
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The Mission Continues: A Case Study of the Well After Service Model
Oliver Gould and Aaron Scheinberg from The Mission Continues partnered with Monica Matthieu from the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis to eva...
By Oliver Gould, Aaron Scheinberg, MBS, MPA/ID, Monica Matthieu, L.C.S.W. & Ph.D.
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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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Envisioning Strategic Options: Comparing Alternative Marine Corps Structures
In "Envisioning Strategic Options," LtCol Frank G. Hoffman, USMCR (Ret.) and Col G. P. Garrett, USMC (Ret.) lay out "some alternative Marine Corps structures to stimulate a d...
By Frank G. Hoffman & G. P. Garrett
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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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Needs Assessment
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Senior Fellow Phillip Carter and Research Associate Katherine Kidder have released a study that examines the struggles that some veterans are confronting in adjusting to civi...
By Katherine Kidder & Phillip Carter
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Expanding the Net
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Although the VA will spend nearly $7 billion this year on mental health care for veterans, CNAS Senior Fellow Phillip Carter argues in Expanding the Net: Building Mental Healt...
By Phillip Carter
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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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America’s Veterans: A Sound Investment
LTG William B. Caldwell IV, USA and Major Crispin J. Burke, USA argue that society should leverage the latest generation of men and women leaving the military, and the skills,...
By Crispin J. Burke, William B. Caldwell & IV
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Right-Sizing the Force: Lessons for the Current Drawdown of American Military Personnel
Former Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness and current RAND Corporation Senior Fellow Bernard Rostker argues in the new CNAS working paper Right-Sizing the F...
By Bernard Rostker
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If All Else Fails: The Challenges of Containing a Nuclear-Armed Iran
Dr. Colin H. Kahl, Raj Pattani and Jacob Stokes argue in If All Else Fails: The Challenges of Containing a Nuclear-Armed Iran that the Obama administration could eventually be...
By Colin H. Kahl, Jacob Stokes & Raj Pattani
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Atomic Kingdom: If Iran Builds the Bomb, Will Saudi Arabia Be Next?
It is taken for granted in Washington that Saudi Arabia will inevitably pursue nuclear weapons if Tehran succeeds in its quest for the bomb. However, CNAS Senior Fellow Colin ...
By Colin H. Kahl, Matthew Irvine & Melissa Dalton
