Ideas
How Chinese Strategists Think AI Will Power a Military Leap Ahead
The U.S. military should ready itself for a warfighting environment in which the PLA’s realizes its vision of "intelligenization."
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The Defense Budget Process Is Broken
What the U.S. needs isn’t more money for the Pentagon, but an honest and tough debate about strategy.
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Calculating the Costs of the Afghanistan War
The war in Afghanistan, like many other wars before it, began with optimistic assessments of a quick victory and the promise to rebuild at war’s end.
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The Curious Omission in Russia’s New Security Strategy
It doesn’t mention “cyber”—and that tells us a few things.
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What Comes Next? A Lesson from Saigon
Rather than marking the eclipse of American power, withdrawal from Vietnam coincided with its spectacular increase.
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Taiwan Wants Paladins. Congress Should Say No
Taipei’s only hope for an effective defense is not armor but asymmetry.
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The 2018 Strategy Is Unworkable. We Need a Fundamental Defense Rethink
We can model our efforts to link long-term defense priorities and resourcing on a post-Cold War review.
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Don’t Divide the World Between Democracies and Autocracies
There are better ways to face our challenges than pushing for ideological blocs.
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Let’s Get Real About US Military ‘Dominance’
American strategists need to drop the assumption that the U.S. military will be the superior force in any given situation.
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The US Talks A Lot About Strategic Complexity. Too Bad It’s Mostly Just Talk.
The pandemic sidelined a national security community that gives only lip service to a vital concept.
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Biden’s Interim National Security Guidance Is a Good, If Small, First Step
Next come the big questions: what is America’s current status, and where do we want to go?
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Building a China Strategy Starts by Answering These Questions
To begin, we must question our perceptions and eliminate our biases.
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‘Great Power Competition’ Is a Dangerously Simple Frame
To correctly set force posture, the Pentagon needs to look more deeply at the world’s actors, their preferences, and relationships.
Policy
White House Prepping Multi-Part Executive Order on SolarWinds Hack
The official leading the effort said changes are necessary to improve information sharing within the federal government.
Ideas
How to Reconnect the Pentagon’s Strategy to its Budget
Biden will have little time and likely less money to enact his policies. He needs to tie strategy more closely to funding.
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How to Cut the US Presence in the Middle East
Asking the military to pursue the same goals with fewer resources will not work.
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The SolarWinds Hack Doesn’t Demand a Violent Response
Major retaliation is more likely to spur escalation than improve deterrence.
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Will COVID Finally Force Us to Think Differently About National Security?
The “softer” approaches of irregular war offer outsized benefits during competition and armed conflict alike.
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Great Power Competition Is Too Narrow a Frame
The United States cannot hope to prevail and prosper unless it broadens its conception of the global struggle.
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What Would a Climate-Focused DoD Budget Look Like?
It’d be less about what we spend and more about how we spend the money we already have.
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