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: 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.
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.
Eric welcomes Franklin C. Miller, a Principal at the Scowcroft Group and long time public servant at the Department of State, Defense and the White House with deep expertise on nuclear strategy, escalation dynamics and deterrence.
For Sweden and Finland, the greatest change with NATO membership will be with regard to identity and strategic culture.
Washington, DC, March 13, 2023 – The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA), one of the nation’s premier institutions for understanding competition and conflict, is pleased to announce that Captain Thane Clare, (USN, Ret.) has joined the Center as a Senior Fellow. He will support a wide range of CSBA’s work, including naval, air, and space power, strategic and defense planning for great-power competition, as well as the nexus between operational planning and defense acquisition.
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