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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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Art of Future Warfare

Jan 5, 2016

Cole on the Art of Future War Initiative

By August Cole

The Adjacent Possible interviews Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow August Cole on the Art of Future War initiative and the War Stories from the Future project:

Defense Industrialist

Dec 31, 2015

Will the bomber always get through?

By James Hasik

The long-term survivability of the LRS-B is a known unknowable. Will the US Air Force’s new stealth bomber be sufficiently survivable? Naïve calculations sometimes presume, to quote Stanley Baldwin’s 1932 speech in the House of Commons, that “the bomber will always get through.” History has proven otherwise, and at the start of a ten-year development […]

Defense Industry Defense Policy

Defense Industrialist

Dec 30, 2015

LRS-B: Too big to lose?

By James Hasik and Rachel Rizzo

Does building big bombers concentrate too much power in a single platform? Writing in Forbes two years ago, Loren Thompson of the Lexington Institute argued that about $550 million would be cheap for a new bomber. The price of the LRS-B may be about half again as much as an A380 jetliner, and the latter need […]

Defense Industry Security & Defense

Defense Industrialist

Dec 18, 2015

Why we need those little crappy ships

By James Hasik

Ash Carter’s emphasis on aircraft and quality over ships-in-quantity may be the wrong call on technology and strategy. Defense Secretary Ash Carter just told the Navy to spend less money on ships and more on jets. In a memorandum this week, he directed Navy Secretary Ray Mabus to cap purchases of Independence– and Freedom-class ships […]

Maritime Security Missile Defense

Defense Industrialist

Dec 17, 2015

Artificial strategy

By James Hasik

Are even the computers smart enough for the gray zones? General Joseph Votel, head of US Special Operations Command, is worried about “gray zones.” As he told the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities back in March, he is vexed by today’s “ambiguity on the nature of the conflict, the parties involved, and the […]

Defense Policy Security & Defense

Art of Future Warfare

Dec 14, 2015

Cole: Droids and The Force: How the Science in ‘Star Wars’ Is Actually Real

By August Cole

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow August Cole cowrites for the Wall Street Journal Speakeasy with P.W. Singer on technology in the “Star Wars” series that actually has parallels with today’s technological innovations:

Defense Industrialist

Dec 10, 2015

“Not hesitant to use this power for corporate advantage”

By James Hasik

Just how politically problematic is concentration in the defense industry? Back in September, Under Secretary of Defense Frank Kendall, the Pentagon’s procurement chief, took the trouble to make a rather forceful on-the-record statement about Lockheed Martin’s then-pending purchase of Sikorsky. He admitted that the deal posed no classical anti-trust concerns, but he worried about how even […]

Defense Industry Security & Defense

Defense Industrialist

Dec 10, 2015

Is the LRS-B urgently needed?

By James Hasik and Rachel Rizzo

The new bomber isn’t coming soon, but some stopgaps should be. Seven years ago, Robert Haffa and Michael Isherwood of Northrop Grumman’s Analysis Center argued that the US Air Force urgently needed a new bomber—indeed, by 2018. Enemy missiles, they thought, could shut down the remaining forward airfields from which American fighter-bombers could fly. Those […]

Defense Industry Defense Technologies

Corporate Strategy Forum

Dec 9, 2015

Europe’s Dual-Use Technology and Industrial Base

By Brent Scowcroft Center

On Wednesday, December 9, as part of the Atlantic Council’s Corporate Strategy Forum, the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security hosted a private dinner on “Europe’s Dual-Use Technology and Industrial Base.” The event featured the Chief Executive Officer of the European Defense Agency, Ambassador Jorge Domecq, who delivered keynote remarks about the shared challenge of […]

Art of Future Warfare

Dec 7, 2015

War on the Rocks Highlights Art of Future Warfare Project

By Brent Scowcroft Center

War on the Rocks highlights the Atlantic Council’s Art of Future Warfare Project in an article on the importance of literature in the military: 

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