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The Biden Transition and Reshaping U.S. Strategy: Replacing “Burden Sharing” with Meaningful Force Planning
January 11, 2021 | Anthony H. Cordesman The current U.S. posture toward its strategic partners and alliances fixates more on spending quotas than actual force development and modernization, writes CSIS’s Burke Chair in Strategy.

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Making America Great? Global Perceptions of China, Russia, and the United States: The International Scorecard
January 7, 2021 | Anthony H. Cordesman The United States needs a strategy to reshape global perceptions of its overall character as a key form of competition against other great powers, writes CSIS’s Burke Chair in Strategy.

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Measuring Service Contract Performance
September 18, 2020 | Andrew Philip Hunter, Gregory Sanders Services account for over 41 percent of DoD contract obligations. This CSIS report looks at a million contracts to evaluate how three factors influence performance: service complexity, contract-management capacity, and vendor’s history working with a DoD contracting.

Commentary
Ending America’s Grand Strategic Failures
June 22, 2020 | Anthony H. Cordesman The United States needs to reshape its national security strategy to focus on global competition by supporting both U.S. and partner interests, writes CSIS’s Burke Chair in Strategy.

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The Coronavirus and Changes in the FY2021 Budget: Keeping Cuts in American Defense Spending in Perspective
April 7, 2020 | Anthony H. Cordesman The current share of U.S. defense spending compared to total federal spending reveals how future national security expenditures should be allocated in the face of the ongoing Coronavirus crisis, writes CSIS's Burke Chair.

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The FY2021 U.S. Defense Budget Request: A Dysfunctional Set of Strategic Blunders
February 13, 2020 | Anthony H. Cordesman The recently released FY2021 Defense Budget Request lacks the strategy to enhance national security beyond providing funds for individual military services, writes CSIS’s Burke Chair in Strategy.

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The Air Force of the Future: A Comparison of Alternative Force Structures
October 29, 2019 | Todd Harrison This CSIS ASP report compares, contrasts, and critiques three congressionally mandated studies of the Air Force’s future force structure. This analysis only considers the unclassified material released to provide an independent assessment of the current state of the Air Force.

Commentary
Experts React: Turkey’s Intervention, U.S. Diplomacy, and the Crisis in Syria
October 18, 2019 The U.S. withdrawal from Syria has far-reaching geostrategic implications. In this analysis, CSIS scholars with a range of topical and regional expertise reflect on this decision and its impact on international affairs.

Commentary
Kim Jong-Un Inserts Himself into the U.S. Presidential Campaign on the Side of Trump
May 29, 2019 | Robert R. King Kim Jong-un has inserted himself squarely into the U.S. presidential campaign. Ambassador Robert R. King discusses the implications of the recent article by the Korean Central News Agency criticizing former vice president Joe Biden.

Commentary
Maduro’s Mafia State
October 31, 2018 | Moises Rendon

At a recent event hosted by CSIS Americas Program, both Ambassador Brownfield and Juan Zarate offered some thoughts on how the international community can help Venezuela during “Day After” challenges, as Moises Rendon writes in his new commentary.

Critical Questions
Review Warns Defense Industrial Base Faces 'Unprecedented Set of Challenges’
October 5, 2018 | Rhys McCormick

CSIS defense expert Rhys McCormick breaks down the recently released White House report on U.S. defense industrial base in a new CQ piece.

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Information Warfare: An Emergent Australian Defence Force Capability
October 4, 2018

CSIS report “Information Warfare: An Emergent Australian Defence Force Capability” sets out some key questions from the Australian military concerning information warfare and its implications for allies and security partners seeking to confront this challenge.

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