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Kevin Doffing

Nonresident Fellow

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Jade Doss 

Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow

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Nizar El Fakih

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs

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Steven Grundman

Senior Fellow

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

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Adam Hammer

Nonresident Fellow

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Sara Lechtenberg-Kasten

Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow

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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

Bremain vs Brexit

Dec 23, 2015

In 2016, All Eyes on Britain’s In-Out EU Referendum

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Vote will have serious consequences either way, says Atlantic Council’s Fran Burwell As 2015 draws to a close, our experts take a look back at the year that was and look ahead to 2016. This interview is part of a series. Fran Burwell is the Vice President of European Union and Special Initiatives at the […]

European Union
International Organizations

In the News

Dec 18, 2015

Ashooh on the UN Meeting on the Conflict in Syria

By Jessica Ashooh

Middle East Strategy Task Force Deputy Director Jessica Ashooh joins Sky News to discuss the meeting of world leaders in New York at the United Nations on the conflict in Syria and whether the talks will be successful:

Syria

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

In the News

Dec 17, 2015

Ashooh on the Syrian Crisis and the Geneva Communique

By Jessica Ashooh

Middle East Strategy Task Force Deputy Director Jessica Ashooh joins Voice of America to discuss the Syria talks happening in New York on Friday and the importance of those talks reaffirming the language in the 2012 Geneva Communique:

Syria

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:

In the News

Dec 11, 2015

Ashooh on the Upcoming Syrian Peace Talks

By Jessica Ashooh

Middle East Strategy Task Force Deputy Director Jessica Ashooh joins Al Jazeera English to discuss the upcoming Syrian peace talks and why military pressure is necessary to force Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to the negotiating table: Watch the full interview here.

Syria

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
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Events

Public Event Thu, February 12, 2026 • 11:00 am ET

Congressman John Moolenaar on deterring aggression against Taiwan

AN #ACFRONTPAGE EVENT—Moolenaar, chairman of the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, discusses how the United States and Taiwan can strengthen deterrence in the Taiwan Strait.
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