Analysis

How to Handle Winners (And Losers) in the Pentagon’s 8% Budget Relook

  • March 31, 2025
  • Travis Sharp, Casey Nicastro, and Evan B. Montgomery
  • DefenseNews

Travis Sharp, Evan B. Montgomery, and Casey Nicastro share how insights gathered during a CSBA defense spending balancing exercise may help decision makers consider where to reallocate resources following Secretary Hegseth’s relook directive. 

Analysis

Can Europe Fight For Taiwan?

  • January 8, 2025
  • Toshi Yoshihara and Luis Simon
  • War On The Rocks

Toshi Yoshihara and Luis Simon consider the factors that would increase the likelihood of Europe engaging in or contributing to a war over Taiwan.

Analysis

Hostages, Assassinations, and the Future of National Defense

  • August 8, 2024
  • Eric Edelman and Eliot A. Cohen
  • Shield of the Republic

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.

Analysis

Podcast: Paul Nitze: National Security’s Forgotton Man

  • August 1, 2024
  • Eric Edelman and Eliot A. Cohen
  • Shield of the Republic

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

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