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The Accompany They Keep: What Niger Tells Us about Accompany Missions, Combat, and Operations Other than War
Agenda SecDef

The Accompany They Keep: What Niger Tells Us about Accompany Missions, Combat, and Operations Other than War

Alice Hunt Friend
The Chairman the Pentagon Needs

The Chairman the Pentagon Needs

January 5, 2018
Paula Thornhill and Mara Karlin
How Many Battles Can the Pentagon Fight in Washington At Once?

How Many Battles Can the Pentagon Fight in Washington At Once?

December 13, 2017
Loren DeJonge Schulman and Lauren Fish
Awaiting the New Defense Strategy

Awaiting the New Defense Strategy

September 5, 2017
Shawn Brimley

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Strategic Guidance for Countering the Proliferation of Strategic Guidance

July 20, 2017
Christopher Skaluba and Mara Karlin
Strategic Guidance for Countering the Proliferation of Strategic Guidance

Defense Problems as People Problems: Mattis’s Human Capital Challenge

July 5, 2017
Katherine Kidder and Loren DeJonge Schulman
Defense Problems as People Problems: Mattis’s Human Capital Challenge

Getting the Pentagon’s Next National Defense Strategy Right

May 24, 2017
Shawn Brimley
Getting the Pentagon’s Next National Defense Strategy Right

You Get Deterrence, and You Get Deterrence, Everybody Gets Deterrence!

May 5, 2017
Mara Karlin
You Get Deterrence, and You Get Deterrence, Everybody Gets Deterrence!

Keeping Up Civ-Mil Relations

April 19, 2017
Loren DeJonge Schulman and Mara Karlin
Keeping Up Civ-Mil Relations

Tips for Mattis on Navigating Swampland

April 4, 2017
Shawn Brimley
Tips for Mattis on Navigating Swampland

For an Audience of One: Re-Booting Agenda SecDef

March 21, 2017
Shawn Brimley, Loren DeJonge Schulman, and Mara Karlin
For an Audience of One: Re-Booting Agenda SecDef

Grading Defense Reform

May 25, 2016
Loren DeJonge Schulman and Shawn Brimley
Grading Defense Reform

Observations on Global Military Posture

May 10, 2016
Shawn Brimley and Loren DeJonge Schulman
Observations on Global Military Posture

Escaping the No Man’s Land of Defense Reform

April 12, 2016
Loren DeJonge Schulman, Katherine Kidder, and Shawn Brimley
Escaping the No Man’s Land of Defense Reform

Sustaining the Third Offset Strategy in the Next Administration

March 15, 2016
Shawn Brimley and Loren DeJonge Schulman
Sustaining the Third Offset Strategy in the Next Administration

How the Next SecDef Can Prevail on Defense Spending

March 1, 2016
Shawn Brimley and Loren DeJonge Schulman
How the Next SecDef Can Prevail on Defense Spending

On Goldwater-Nichols and the Centrality of Military Advice

February 2, 2016
Shawn Brimley and Loren DeJonge Schulman
On Goldwater-Nichols and the Centrality of Military Advice

Agenda SecDef: Crafting the Next Defense Strategy

January 19, 2016
Shawn Brimley and Loren DeJonge Schulman
Agenda SecDef: Crafting the Next Defense Strategy

Introducing Agenda SecDef

November 24, 2015
Shawn Brimley and Loren DeJonge Schulman
Introducing Agenda SecDef
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