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Publications and Events
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Publications:
| |  | Informed by a diverse group of air power experts, this report explains the benefits of developing a new, manned bomber while also pointing out the substantial hurdles to realizing such a program by 2018. By Clark Murdock
January 25, 2008 | | | | |  | The Department of Defense is increasingly a direct provider of "non-traditional" security assistance: counterterrorism, capacity building, stabilization and reconstruction, and humanitarian relief. This report examines this trend of DoD involvement while making recommendations on how best to balance military and civilian efforts. By Robert Andrews and Mark Kirk (cochairs); J. Stephen Morrison and Kathleen Hicks (project directors) January 18, 2008 | | | | |  | Stability operations are now just as important as combat operations, yet a framework for planning and assessment of stability operations does not yet exist. This report shows how capabilities-based approaches can be applied to stability operations planning.
Kathleen Hicks and Eric Ridge
December 21, 2007 | | | | |  | This report examines the need to expand and modernize America's fleet of special operations aircraft to meet the new challenges of the global war on terror. October 26, 2007 By Clark Murdock
| | | | |  | CSIS provided staff support to an independent commission appointed by Congress to conduct an assessment of the Iraqi Security Forces. The commission reported to Congress in September 2007 on the readiness of the Iraqi Security Forces, their capabilities, and how support and training by U.S. forces contributes to the effectiveness of the ISF.
By General James L. Jones, USMC (Ret.), Chairman
September 6, 2007 |
Events:
| | A roundtable discussion featuring Roles and Missions Panel Chairman Jim Cooper (D-TN) and Ranking Member Phil Gingrey (R-GA) as they present the results of their first report, along with CSIS Senior Associate Michèle Flournoy and National Journal reporter James Kitfield, who will discuss the report's findings.
 AUDIO (mp3, 01:15:27) | VIDEO (wmv, 00:39:56)
March 11, 2008 | | | | | With its reputation as the gold standard in reform legislation, the Goldwater-Nichols Act requires gold standard scrutiny. This CSIS event included three panels of distinguished experts discussing the following questions:
- Does the Military Provide Adequate Advice to the Commander in Chief and Congress?
- Lessons Learned from Iraq & Afghanistan: Assessing "Jointness" at the Operational and Strategic Level
- Who Should Manage Acquisition? Who Should Decide Military Requirements?
| | | |  | At a combined Smart Power and Military Strategy Forum event, Adm. Stavridis, combatant commander of U.S. Southern Command discussed ways in which the U.S. can more effectively and constructively employ all forms of national power. AUDIO (mp3 00:56:42) | VIDEO (wmv 00:56:47) January 16, 2008 | | | | |  | This conference on national security reform featured two keynote addresses, the first from Brent Scowcroft, former national security advisor, and the second from Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence. Scowcroft
VIDEO (wmv, 54:23) | AUDIO (mp3, 54:30) McConnell VIDEO (wmv, 51:33) | AUDIO (mp3, 51:06) | TRANSCRIPT (pdf) July 26, 2007 |
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