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Topic: Reform

Read the most recent CSIS research on defense reform efforts.

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Analysis / Reform, Strategy

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.

January 16, 2020 — Kathleen Hicks, Joseph P. Federici
Opinion / Reform

Bad Idea: Continuing to Talk about “Cybersecurity”

We should stop talking about cybersecurity, not because “cyber issues” are over-hyped, but because the challenges and constantly evolving threat landscape involving cyber are so complex, and we cannot afford to continue operating under an already overextended definition.

December 19, 2019 — Suzanne Spaulding, Devi Nair
Opinion / Reform

Bad Idea: Encryption Backdoors

There are a myriad of steps the federal government could take to improve its ability to investigate cybercrime and cases that involve digital evidence. But it is pursuing technologically inadvisable solutions that would lessen everyone’s security and seriously jeopardize our national security.

December 19, 2019 — Ishan Mehta, Mieke Eoyang, sdaniels
Opinion / Reform

Bad Idea: Paying Servicemembers More to Do the Same Amount of Work

While we should not go back to a time where military wages failed to keep pace with civilian salaries, neither should we succumb to cost disease. We must invest in understanding and increasing labor productivity.

December 6, 2019 — Justin Joffrion, sdaniels
Opinion / Reform

Bad Idea: Overclassification

Continuing to shroud government actions behind a veil of secrecy will only deepen the divide between that government and the people it is supposed to serve.

December 6, 2019 — Patrick G. Eddington, Christopher A. Preble, sdaniels
Opinion / Reform, Strategy, Uncategorized

How Drone Attacks Reveal Fixable Flaws With American Air Defenses

The attacks on the oil facilities at Abqaiq and Khurais in Saudi Arabia are neon flashing warning signs of the threat presented by the proliferation of low flying precision guided weapons like drones and cruise missiles.

September 24, 2019 — Ian Williams
Analysis / Acquisition, Reform, Strategy

U.S. Military Forces in FY 2020: The Struggle to Align Forces with Strategy

The future poses two risks to the administration’s plans: (1) the lack of real growth in future budgets will hamper the launching of further initiatives; and (2) a softening of public, and then political, support could undermine both budgets and an engagement strategy.

September 24, 2019 — Mark Cancian
Analysis / Budget, Reform

The Pentagon is moving money to pay for Trump’s border wall. Here are the consequences.

On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper notified members of Congress that he would take $3.6 billion from military construction projects to build 175 more miles of wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.

September 6, 2019 — Alice Hunt Friend
Analysis / Budget, Reform

Understanding DoD’s Defense-Wide Zero-Based Review

On August 10, the Department of Defense kicked off a defense-wide zero-based review. This brief explains what the review entails, which defense-wide organizations are subject to it, and previous efforts at driving efficiencies in the “Fourth Estate.”

September 4, 2019 — Seamus P. Daniels
Analysis / Reform, Strategy

What Does the Trump Administration’s New Memorandum Mean for Nuclear-Powered Space Missions?

The Trump Administration’s new memorandum is a move to restructure how the U.S. government regulates and approves space-based nuclear power systems—particularly nuclear propulsion systems.

August 28, 2019 — Kaitlyn Johnson
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