 
Make the Pentagon’s China Report Really Matter by Chris Estep
The China military power report has grown into a cornerstone of defense analysis. But does it still meet the moment?
US defense procurement is expensive, increasingly concentrated, and resistant to change.
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Creative Destruction Is Alive and Well—Except Where It Matters Most
John G. Ferrari | AEI Foreign and Defense Policy Working Paper Series
Distributed Maritime Ops: Is the US Navy Ready for China?
www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/distributed-maritime-ops-is-the-us-navy-ready-for-china/ Distributed Maritime Ops seeks to increase the resilience of US forces against Chinese A2/AD threats by complicating enemy targeting and leveraging technological advantages, but success is still contingent on the robustness of US logistics and industrial support. Trump’s Strategic Choice: Prioritization or Retrenchment
The decision to prioritize China or retreat to the Americas is the central tension for Trump's foreign policy team.
Trump’s defense secretary should focus on internal Pentagon challenges to meet external threats
In this op-ed, John Ferrari says the incoming secretary of defense needs to fix three things in the Pentagon: acquisition, resources, and recruiting.
Political leaders need to stop standing in the way of defense innovation
“Standing in the way [of innovation] are three roadblocks, none of which are technological, and all of which the next President and Congress should consider challenging,” writes John Ferrari of AEI.
3 steps towards fixing the acquisition insanity at the Pentagon
In this op-ed, John Ferrari of AEI argues the Pentagon needs to stop creating and rearranging offices for procurement and lays out what they should do instead.
We are living through a shift in the balance of power between states and the private sector, writes Ulrike Franke, with vast implications for modern conflict.
The Dwindling Strategic Flame: Reviving Creative Defense Planning
By Phillip Dolitsky, Military Strategy Magazine: “Strategy and defense planning belong to the realm of the unknown. There is nothing as certain as the uncertainty of the future and yet all polities depend on their safety and survival by striving to meet the challenge of uncertainty.” The U.S. Military Is Quietly Reinventing Itself on the Great Lakes By Jerry Hendrix, National Review: “As some of the world’s largest inland seas, the lakes provide the United States with an opportunity similar to that found at Area 51.” |
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