In the coming decade, the constraints on U.S. foreign and defense policyfiscal, social, geopoliticalare likely to intensify. At the same time, the security environment is evolving in ways that pose a more diverse array of risks, threats and ...Read more >

Rapid and continuing changes in the international environment, weaknesses in the US economy, the worsening and unsustainable fiscal outlook, and a better understanding of the comparative strengths and weaknesses of US-military capabilities create a need and an opportunity for the United States to rethink its defense planning and ...Read more >

On January 5, 2012, President Obama announced new defense strategic guidance entitled Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense.1 This new guidance is significant because it is explicitly intended to reshape future Department of Defense (DOD) priorities, activities, and budget requests for the next ...Read more >

This monograph explains why robust civil-military relations matter and discusses how they are evolving. Without meaningful and reliable civilian control of the military, governments lose some measure of control over the destiny of their ...Read more >

Fuel powers the industrial production that strengthens the economy and provides the means to project national power. Reliable sources of energy are imperative to the security of the United States. Aside from coal, conventional natural gas deposits have been the most practical and easiest to ...Read more >

Six and a half decades ago, a remarkable experiment in democracy and nation building was launched in India that has fundamentally altered the world as we know it today. India, an economically impoverished, continent-sized, vastly diverse nation, resolved to meet its tryst with destiny on the basis of democratic values, secularism, inclusive nationalism and ...Read more >

Grand strategy is very much in vogue these days. In the 2 decades since the end of the Cold War, politicians and pundits alike have consistently proclaimed the need for a new American grand strategy, and they have just as consistently flayed their opponents for failing to deliver ...Read more >

At the dawn of the 21st century, the United States of America faces a broad and complex array of challenges to our national security. Just as America helped to determine the course of the 20th century, we must now build the sources of American strength and influence, and shape an international order capable of overcoming the challenges of the 21st ...Read more >

The first duty of the sovereign, wrote Adam Smith, is that of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies, a duty that can be performed only by means of a military ...Read more >

This Roadmap outlines how the U.S. army will develop, organize, and empoly UAS from 2010 to 2035 across the full spectrum operations. The Army will capitalize on UAS capabilities and implement emerging technologies so the Warfighter can conduct missions more effectively with reduced ...Read more >

IT plays a vital role in enabling the defense intelligence mission. An incredible challenge facing our nation is securing information from internal and external threats while enabling beneficial collaboration within our internal national security ...Read more >

DIAs expeditionary charter to deploy its workforce to conflict zones, areas of emerging threats, combatant commands, U.S. embassies, and our allies military headquarters, to name a few, will be vigorously exercised over the next five years and likely ...Read more >

Space is vital to U.S. national security and our ability to understand emerging threats, project power globally, conduct operations, support diplomatic efforts, and enable global economic ...Read more >