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Michelle Kholos Brooks

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Security & Defense

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Max Brooks

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Crisis Management National Security

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August Cole

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Defense Industry Defense Policy

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Steven Grundman

Senior Fellow

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Defense Industry Defense Policy

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Adam Hammer

Nonresident Fellow

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Defense Industry Defense Policy

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Defense Industrialist

Feb 4, 2016

Options unconsidered

By James Hasik

Which is the question—should carrier drones be tankers, or should tankers just be seaplanes? Turning the US Navy’s next carrier-based drone into a tanker, as the service announced this week, is probably a reasonable idea. For some time, buddy-tanking F-18 Hornets has been a questionable use of other Hornets, but one  completely necessitated since 2009 […]

Defense Industry Japan

Defense Industrialist

Feb 2, 2016

Think Small

By Steven Grundman

Economies Of Scale Ain’t What They Used To Be. Last month, while the world’s elites were gathering in Davos, Switzerland for Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum (WEF), I was in Washington hosting an address by the acquisition executive of the U.S. Special Operations Command, James “Hondo” Geurts. While the setting for these two occasions could […]

Defense Industry Security & Defense

Emerging Defense Challenges

Feb 1, 2016

An Artist’s Perspective on Moral Complexity

By Brent Scowcroft Center

On February 1, the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security hosted an Art of Future Warfare project Google Hangout with Matt Gallagher, author of Youngblood. As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan wind down while ISIS rises up, the United States is left in a morally and strategically ambiguous position: should America keep […]

Art of Future Warfare

Feb 1, 2016

Navy Times Highlights Cole’s Book on the Next Global Conflict and His Upcoming Participation in the Science Fiction Futures Workshop

By August Cole

Read the full article here.

Defense Industrialist

Jan 26, 2016

On trucks and lawsuits

By James Hasik

Complaints over fairness indicate how hard military procurement can be, and how strategic urgency must sometimes trump procedural justice. In North America in the past several months, three defense contractors have complained to US and Canadian federal reviewers that they’ve been treated unfairly in procurement programs for new military vehicles. Lockheed Martin has complained about […]

Defense Industry Security & Defense

Defense Industrialist

Jan 23, 2016

Newer aircraft, bigger bills

By James Hasik

In the USAF, mission-capable rates are not a matter of age or scale efficiencies.  In Air Force Times this week, Jeff Schogol pulled some descriptive statistics from USAF records to report on “which aircraft are most mission-ready.” His list included the various types of attack, bomber, cargo (including gunship and electronic warfare), fighter, rescue helicopter, tilt-rotor, […]

Defense Industry Defense Technologies

Art of Future Warfare

Jan 21, 2016

US CYBERCOM and the NSA: A Strategic Look with ADM Michael S. Rogers

By Brent Scowcroft Center

The Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security hosted a Commanders Series event with Admiral Michael S. Rogers, the Commander of US Cyber Command and Director of the National Security Agency, regarding his strategic priorities for 2016.

Defense Industrialist

Jan 20, 2016

Recombinant lethality

By James Hasik

What the military departments can learn from SORDAC Yesterday evening, the Atlantic Council hosted James “Hondo” Guerts, chief of the US Special Operations Research, Development and Acquisition Center (SORDAC), for a speech and discussion about what makes his organization different. Uniquely amongst the US acquisition executives, Geurts has integrated responsibility for research, development, procurement, and […]

Defense Industry Security & Defense

Emerging Defense Challenges

Jan 19, 2016

Defense-Industrial Policy Series: Acquisition for Special Operations Forces

By Brent Scowcroft Center

On January 19, 2016, the Atlantic Council hosted Mr. James F. Geurts, the Acquisition Executive for US Special Operations Command, for a Defense-Industrial Policy Series event entitled, “Acquisition for Special Operations Forces.” In a discussion moderated by the Council’s Steven Grundman, M.A. and George Lund Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, Mr. Geurts spoke […]

Defense Industrialist

Jan 12, 2016

Four questions for the Marine Corps

By James Hasik

Does the future find need for fewer troops, on more ships, in more units, and more focused on small wars? In October 1957, Commandant of the Marine Corps General Randolph Pate sent Lieutenant General Victor Krulak a brief memo with a simple question: “Why does the U.S. need a Marine Corps?” Recalling his work on […]

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