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Quentin E. Hodgson

Senior Researcher, RAND Corporation

Quentin E. Hodgson is a senior international and defense researcher at RAND. He previously was a civil servant in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in a variety of policy positions and was the principal author of the 2008 National Defense Strategy.
Ideas

How to write a defense strategy that sticks

Seek clarity always, specificity sometimes—and produce a yardstick that can be used to measure decisions.

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