Yesterday, the Commission on the National Defense Strategy for the United States released its final report, and today, Commissioners presented their unanimous conclusions and recommendations before Congress.

Commissioners present their unanimous conclusions and recommendations before Congress.

The Commmission presents its unanimous conclusions and recommendations on how to accomplish urgent and major changes in this report.

On July 17, 2024, Ambassador Eric Edelman, CSBA Counselor and Vice Chair of the National Defense Strategy Commission (NDS), joined NDS Commission Chair Jane Harman, and NDS Commission Members GEN Jack Keane (USA, Ret.) and Mara Rudman, and moderator Courtney Kube of NBC News for a readout of the forthcoming NDS Commission Report.

This year's NATO Summit was stalked by two quite different phantasms – the spectre of weak leadership among Western leaders, and what former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has characterized as the most dangerous and challenging international security environment since World War Two.

Eric and Eliot host Sergey Radchenko, the Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies based in Bologna, Italy