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“The morale in 7th Fleet has gone down, based on command surveys over the last few years, and it’s gone down noticeably,” said Bryan Clark, a senior fellow with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments in Washington and a former strategic planner for the Navy.
Eric and Eliot discuss the multinational hostage return deal with Russia, the Israeli strikes in Beirut and Tehran, and the recent release of the National Defense Strategy Commission report.
Five CSBA experts significantly contributed to the efforts of the Commission on the National Defense Strategy for the United States. We invite you to explore a selection of related news coverage.
Eric and Eliot host James Graham Wilson, an historian in the Department of State's Historian's Office, to discuss his new book, America's Cold Warrior: Paul Nitze and National Security From Roosevelt to Reagan.
The national security threats against the U.S. are as significant as and more complex than they were at the height of the Cold War or even World War II. We are not prepared to meet these threats today and could, in very short order, find ourselves in a war across multiple theaters with peer and near-peer adversaries that we could lose.
The heart of CSBA is our team of uniquely qualified defense experts and operations professionals. We are thrilled to introduce staff who have joined our team in 2024 and those who have recently stepped into new roles within our organization.
The Commission on the National Defense Strategy Vice Chair Eric Edelman and Commissioner Mara Rudman talk about the bipartisan panel’s report on U.S. defense strategy and military readiness.
