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Commentary
The Spectacular & Public Collapse of Navy Force Planning
January 30, 2020 | Mark F. Cancian, Adam Saxton Trapped by a 355-ship force goal, a reduced budget, and a fixed counting methodology, the Navy can’t find a feasible solution to the difficult question of how its forces should be structured.

Report
Reinvention or Restoration?
December 9, 2019 | Daniel F. Runde With the shareholders of EBRD reviewing its current operations and as Sir Suma is succeeded by a new president, CSIS releases a new white paper to examine the opportunities and challenges to the EBRD, the transatlantic relationship, and the stability of the global economy.

Report
U.S. Military Forces in FY 2020: The Struggle to Align Forces with Strategy
November 8, 2019 | Mark F. Cancian CSIS’s Mark Cancian analyzes the U.S. military forces in FY 2020, their composition, new initiatives, long-term trends, and challenges, as the United States attempts to align its forces with a strategy of long-term great power competition.

Report
U.S. Military Forces in FY 2020: SOF, Civilians, Contractors, and Nukes
October 24, 2019 | Mark F. Cancian Military forces consist not just of the services, but also special operations forces, civilians, contractors, and non-DOD agencies. In his final white paper in a series on U.S. forces, CSIS’s Mark Cancian analyzes recent changes to these other national security elements.

Book
Ironclad: Forging a New Future for America’s Alliances
October 18, 2019 | Michael J. Green, Sue Mi Terry, Jon B. Alterman, Heather A. Conley, Amy Searight, Franklin Miller With the global U.S. alliance network being called into question, Ironclad assembles an array of academics, practitioners, and experts to examine the current state of U.S. alliances and the trajectory of the U.S. alliance system over the next decade.

Transcript
Accessing Vulnerable Children and Young People in Conflict
October 30, 2018 The CSIS Humanitarian Agenda has hosted the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director Henrietta Fore for a keynote address and armchair discussion.

Report
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.

Newsletter
Asia’s Competing Visions
September 26, 2017 | Jonathan E. Hillman, Matthew P. Goodman  
Earlier this month, the leaders of Japan and India paused to lay the foundation stone for a high-speed railway. Shinzo Abe was visiting Narendra Modi’s home state, where a 500-kilometer bullet train using Japanese financing and technology will link Mumbai and the...

Report
The Patterns in Global Terrorism: 1970-2016
August 28, 2017 | Anthony H. Cordesman

Terrorism has become one of the dominating national security threats of the 21st century. It is also one of the most complex — mixing the actions of states, extremists, and other non-state actors in a wide range of threats and types of conflicts.

Commentary
OPEC’s Challenge: Sentiment, Events, and Fundamentals Complicate Producer Decisionmaking
March 15, 2017 | Frank A. Verrastro, Adam Sieminski, Guy Caruso

OPEC’s rollover deliberations have become more complicated and perhaps more urgent after both market fundamentals and sentiment reversed last week. At the start of the week, industry optimism on the oil price outlook was upbeat, but within days, oil prices had fallen to...


Commentary
English Language Proficiency and Development
February 23, 2017 | Daniel F. Runde

Proficiency in English is a critical component of a successful modern society. English is the third most spoken and most widely taught language on the planet. Commonly used in over 100 countries by more than 300...


Report
Is the foundation of the U.S.-led order crumbling?
December 15, 2016 | Michael J. Green Director of National Intelligence James Clapper spoke for many policy and intelligence professionals when he recently described the current international security environment as “the most complex and diverse array of global threats” he has faced in his 53 years in the...

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