World Order after Covid-19
Scholars from the CSIS International Security Program offer their assessment of how Covid-19 will reshape geopolitics over the next decade and beyond.
Kathleen Hicks
is a senior vice president, the Henry A. Kissinger chair, and director of the International Security Program at CSIS. Prior to joining CSIS, she served as principal deputy under secretary of defense for policy and deputy under secretary of defense for strategy, plans, and forces. She focuses on U.S. national security and foreign policy, geopolitical trends, and defense matters.
Covid-19 and the U.S. Military
Kath Hicks hosts a discussion with four experts on the COVID-19 and the United States military.
Bombshell Podcast – This is Fine
Kathleen Hicks joins Loren, Radha, and Erin for an all-COVID-19 episode, starting with potential contributions by DoD to addressing this crisis. They explore different angles of the global pandemic, including how it’s impacting other ongoing international events, the economy, and domestic politics.
Regaining Lost Ground: Defense Support in the Coronavirus Pandemic
Even with its late start, the Defense Department can provide valuable support to whole of nation coronavirus response efforts, write Kathleen Hicks and Joseph Federici.
Getting to Less? The Minimal Exposure Strategy
In this brief, the authors discuss a strategy that they have labeled the Minimal Exposure Strategy. The strategy’s core premise is that the United States is largely secure from military threats due to continental U.S. geography and the deterrent quality of its nuclear and other strategic capabilities.
Getting to Less? The Progressive Values Strategy
In this brief, the authors explore a defense approach they have labeled the Progressive Values Strategy. The strategy is grounded in a view that the military instrument is not well suited to meeting many of the security challenges facing the United States. It focuses on achieving a level of military sufficiency that deters adventurism by others—as well as itself.
Getting to Less? The Innovation Superiority Strategy
In this brief, the authors discuss a strategy they have labeled the Innovation Superiority Strategy. The strategy is guided by a focus on achieving enduring American military advantage in the U.S.-China security competition.
Getting to Less? Exploring the Press for Less in America’s Defense Commitments
This CSIS Brief is the first in a series that explores the contours and implications of strategies that might reduce the U.S. military’s mission space through greater constraints on its ends, ways, or means.
Bad Ideas in National Security Podcast
In this episode of The Truth of the Matter podcast, host Andrew Schwartz welcomes Kathleen Hicks, Andrew Hunter, and Todd Harrison from the CSIS International Security Program to discuss the Bad Ideas in National Security series. In addition to analyzing their own pieces, they nominate their frontrunners for what might be considered the “worst” bad idea.