Fundamentally, is it better for the nation to seek to acquire 1,763[ii] exquisite F-35s, or should we accept small reductions in the F-35 program of record to invest in low-end forces used to build partnerships and carry the load of the Nations many low intensity military ...Read more >

In response to the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), the National Research Council appointed a committee operating under the auspices of the Naval Studies Board to study the issues surrounding capability surprise, both operational and technical, facing U.S. naval forces—the Navy, the Marine Corps, and the Coast ...Read more >

The emerging environment presents a complex range of threats, challenges and opportunities, making it likely that U.S. forces will be called on to operate under a broad variety of ...Read more >

As events in late December 2013 and early 2014 have made brutally clear, Iraq is a nation in crisis bordering on civil war. It is burdened by a long history of war, internal power struggles, and failed ...Read more >

The US Army has a major, strategic role to play in the Indo-Asia-Pacific theater. That role can be broken down into three broad areasbolstering defense of allies and deterring aggression, promoting regional security and stability through security coopertion, and ameliorating the growing US-China security ...Read more >

The 21st century has witnessed a new pattern of international relationships in which nations enter into freewheeling partnerships with other nations based on complementarity of interests in specific but vital ...Read more >

The U.S. Army is involved in combat operations around the world against adaptive enemies able to take advantage of the ever-increasing pace of technological change. Concurrently, we are facing an increasingly constrained fiscal environmentt, ...Read more >

The United States government has made repeated declarations over the last decade to align its assistance programs behind developing countries’ priorities. By utilizing public attitude surveys for 42 African and Latin American countries, this paper examines how well the US has implemented this guiding ...Read more >

During the next decade, the rise of new powers and the accelerating diffusion of advanced technology throughout the international system will pose significant challenges to U.S. technological dominance in military ...Read more >

The views expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Army, the Department of ...Read more >

It received precious little attention. But the World Bank report earlier this year indicating that, for the first time, trade between developing ...Read more >

This report synthesizes a 72-hour crowdsourced brainstorming exercise where over 50 Wikistrat analysts from around the world analyzed what might lead to the next military intervention by the United States ...Read more >

Technology contains no inherent moral directiveit empowers people, whatever their intent, good or evil. This fact, of course, has always been true: when bronze implements supplanted those made of ...Read more >

Till recently there was no concept of strategic thinking in India or the need for scenario based analyses of threats and challenges facing the ...Read more >

Security and stability in Central and South Asia are driven by regional tensions and quarrels, and the internal instability of regional states. Weak governance and corruption are major problems in every state in the region, along with state barriers to economic growth and development ...Read more >