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Kevin Booher

Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow

Global Energy Center

Energy & Environment Renewables & Advanced Energy

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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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Carlton Brinda

Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow

Global Energy Center

Energy & Environment Renewables & Advanced Energy

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Michael Callender 

Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow

Global Energy Center

Energy & Environment

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Jasper Camacho

Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow

Global Energy Center

Energy & Environment Renewables & Advanced Energy
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Future of DHS

Mar 17, 2021

Future of DHS Project cited in House Appropriations Committee hearing on DHS management challenges

By Atlantic Council

On March 17, the House Committee on Appropriations convened a hearing on "DHS Management Challenges" with co-Chairs of Forward Defense's Future of DHS Project advisory board and former secretaries of DHS Michael Chertoff and Jeh Johnson.

Defense Policy National Security

100 Ideas for the first 100 days

Mar 16, 2021

#56: Confront Beijing’s Policy of Pressuring Seoul Rather Than Pyongyang

By: Markus Garlauskas What is the kernel of the issue? Beijing’s obstructive approach on Korea issues should inform US policy on China. US pressure on Pyongyang faltered as Beijing failed to enforce UN sanctions—even while Beijing bullied Seoul for accepting a US THAAD interceptor battery in 2017. Why is the issue important? Beijing’s lifeline to […]

IranElections2021

Mar 16, 2021

Larijani has credentials but not charisma as Iran’s presidential candidate

By Barbara Slavin

Ali Larijani is a veteran official in the Islamic Republic whose long service in a variety of key posts would make him a plausible—if not especially charismatic—candidate in Iran’s upcoming June 18 presidential elections.

Iran Middle East

NATO 20/2020

Mar 16, 2021

Revitalize NATO’s grand strategy: NATO 20/2020 podcast

By Ambassador Timo Koster and Ivanka Barzashka

Collective strategic analysis is the pathway to a more inclusive, transparent, and systematic process for creating NATO’s next strategic concept.

Europe & Eurasia NATO

100 Ideas for the first 100 days

Mar 15, 2021

#55: Nominate and Empower a National Cyber Director

By: Erica Borghard and Trey Herr What is the kernel of the issue? Congress created the Senate-confirmed position of the National Cyber Director (NCD) position in the 2021 National Defense Authorization to be the coordinator for cyber defense across the interagency and the principal cybersecurity advisor to the President. The Biden administration’s National Security Council […]

Seizing the advantage

Mar 15, 2021

What the US can learn from the UK about strategic reviews

By Peter Watkins, Will Jessett CBE

The Biden administration has begun work on a slew of strategies—including a new National Security Strategy, National Defense Strategy, and Nuclear Posture Review—that will form the framework for its approach to security challenges. There’s a lot that it can learn from the British experience of conducting strategic reviews.

China Defense Industry

EnergySource

Mar 14, 2021

The United Nations Security Council needs to authorize military action to prevent the spill of the FSO SAFER

By Dr. Ian Ralby, Rohini Ralby, and Dr. David Soud

The FSO SAFER and the five miles of subsea pipeline to which it is attached threaten to pour 2.14 million barrels of oil into the Red Sea. Between Yemen’s reliance on food shipments to stem a widespread famine, and the wider region’s reliance on desalination plants for drinking water, realistic estimates put the potential death toll from the spill in the millions.

Energy & Environment Geopolitics & Energy Security

100 Ideas for the first 100 days

Mar 14, 2021

#54: Rebuild the State Department

By: Anna Nelson What is the kernel of the issue? The State Department needs rebuilding, something the Biden administration has pledged to do. Congress reliably updates DoD authorities on an annual basis in the National Defense Authorization Act, but State has not received comprehensive reauthorization since 2003. Its primary foreign assistance authorities have been left […]

Inflection Points

Mar 14, 2021

The China-Russia moonshot is one more reason for Biden to rethink his Putin strategy

By Frederick Kempe

Moscow sees its space future with China and not the United States, further underscoring its growing strategic alignment with Beijing. The Biden administration must reflect on how the latest Sino-Russian collaboration should be factored into its emerging approach to Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

Arms Control Russia

100 Ideas for the first 100 days

Mar 13, 2021

#53: Establish a US-ROK Alliance Cyber-Defense and Cyber-Deterrence Mechanism

By: Markus Garlauskas What is the kernel of the issue? Though less visible than its ballistic missile capabilities, North Korea’s offensive cyber capabilities and its boldness in conducting cyber intrusions have grown dramatically in recent years. Why is the issue important? North Korea is capable of disruptive and destructive cyber activities against US and ROK […]

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