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U.S. Strategic and Defense Efforts

Burke Chair reports on U.S. Strategic and Defense Efforts analyzes the roles, missions, and necessities of the U.S. defense apparatus, with concurrent respect to the realities shaping needs and priorities in defense planning and execution.

As part of an ongoing working assessment of Department of Defense strategic, tactical, budgetary, and organizational priorities, these reports incorporate a wide array of defense prerogatives, from homeland defense and security, to overseas warfighting capabilities.

Further emphasis is placed on costing and prioritization of resources, as well the synchronization of efforts across military, intelligence, and civilian agencies. Issues covered in these reports include but are not limited to, personnel issues and the issue of “overstretch”; strategic and planning challenges in Iraq and Afghanistan; meeting the needs of the active and reserve military; U.S. force transformation; interoperability and international alliances; and the challenge of creating an effective interagency process.

Featured

Commentary
America’s Failed Approach to Chaos Theory
By Anthony H. Cordesman
April 16, 2015
Report
21st Century Conflict: From RMA to RCMA
By Anthony H. Cordesman
July 2, 2015
Report
American Strategy and Critical Changes in the U.S. “Energy Import Dependence"
By Anthony H. Cordesman
May 4, 2015
Report
Changing U.S. Security Strategy
By Anthony H. Cordesman
October 30, 2013
Commentary
From King Stork to King Log: America’s Negative Message Overseas
By Anthony H. Cordesman
October 26, 2015

Burke Chair in Strategy

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  • Lessons of War
  • Levant
  • MENA Stability Reports and Studies
  • Military Balance
  • North Africa
  • Russia
  • Saudi Arabia, the GCC, and the Gulf
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  • U.S. Strategic and Defense Efforts
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Report
America’s Military Spending and the Uncertain Costs of its Wars: The Need for Transparent Reporting
By Anthony H. Cordesman
January 23, 2019
Commentary
The Mattis Resignation and the U.S. FY2020 Defense Budget and Strategy Crisis
By Anthony H. Cordesman
January 3, 2019
Report
America's FY2020 Defense Strategy and Programming Crisis
By Anthony H. Cordesman
November 13, 2018
Commentary
Trump on Russia: His Strategy Documents vs. His Meeting with Putin
By Anthony H. Cordesman
July 17, 2018
Commentary
Negotiating the Right Agreement: Looking Beyond the Nuclear Side of North Korea
By Anthony H. Cordesman
June 4, 2018
Commentary
Syria: Act Decisively or Not at All
By Anthony H. Cordesman
April 11, 2018
Report
U.S. National Security Strategy and the MENA Region
By Anthony H. Cordesman
March 29, 2018
Commentary
America's "Chaos Strategy" in the Middle East and South Asia
By Anthony H. Cordesman
February 26, 2018
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