Category: Content Series

Next Generation Fellowship Application

The deadline to register for the Next Generation Fellowship has passed, however, you may still apply to join the Next Generation Network. NEXT GENERATION NETWORK APPLICATION Please contact State Department Senior Fellow Bill Martin at  wmartin@atlanticcouncil.org for more information.

Next Generation Report

The Next Generation report “Through a New Prism: A Next Generation Strategy for the US-German Relationship” is a thirteen-page report which provides eighteen recommendations on ways to strengthen the US-German relationship from a “next generation” perspective. The Fellows prepared the report under Atlantic Council oversight, drawing on ideas from the Network. It was released on […]

Next Generation Network

The Next Generation Network (the “Network”) is an online discussion forum where Americans and Germans worldwide between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five (that is ten-years-old or younger when the Berlin Wall fell) are able to generate and exchange ideas on strengthening the US-German relationship. At present, the Next Generation Network has approximately 70 participants. […]

Hauling Concrete with Cadillacs

By James Hasik

The gradual decline of stealth may call for a high-low mix in airpower strategy.   In the Pentagon’s fiscal year 2016 budget request, the Long-Range Strike Bomber is a big deal. At $1.2 billion, LRS-B development would account just under 7 percent of next year’s unclassified R&D spending. The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is a similarly big deal, ramping […]

“Greece’s gamble”

By Nicholas Burns

New government risks undercutting ties with Europe and the US GREECE HAS never been a leader in Europe’s power institutions — NATO and the European Union. German, French, and British leaders alike considered it too small, poor, and geographically remote to be a major player. But all that changed with Sunday’s landslide victory of the […]

Getting Faster at Revolutionary

By James Hasik

The bureaucratic and technological challenges in speeding up weapons development  Pentagon procurement czar Frank Kendall told the House Armed Services Committee yesterday that his department, as the headline went, “Needs to Get Faster at Developing Revolutionary Weapon Systems”. He also noted that the Air Force, in conjunction with DARPA and the Navy, would soon begin […]