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A Three-Theater Defense Strategy: How America Can Prepare for War in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East
As Washington faces growing dangers in three regions, it must learn how to better cooperate and share with its many friends. In major wars, no country, not even the world’s strongest, can go it alone.
Hardwired for Hardware: Congressional Adjustments to the Administration’s Defense Budget Requests, 2016 to 2023
In a time of fiscal austerity in the near term, DoD priorities must be clearly and concisely conveyed to Congress, and Congress must balance its predilection for hardware with the need to appropriately fund the nonhardware programs and components of the Department.
Podcast: Nuclear Iran, NATO’s Future, and America First Isolationism
Eliot grills Eric on three recent articles identifying some big problems in U.S. foreign policy.
NATO’s Decision Process Has an Achilles’ Heel
Given the threatening international backdrop and the need to balance the cohesion of a larger Alliance with the ability to make rapid and resolute decisions, has the time come to revise the consensus model in critical Article 5 situations?
NATO Has a Munitions Problem, and Europe Needs to Step Up
NATO has a munitions problem: the European defense industry has at least three competing needs—supplying weapons to Ukraine, refilling stockpiles, and building up larger inventories of weapons for the future.
U.S. Alliance Management in the Shadow of Sino-American Competition
This essay sheds light on “old” and “new” challenges to alliance management, providing insights into critical issues of alliance management that the United States will face in the emerging security environment.