Analysis / Reform, Strategy

Getting to Less? The Progressive Values Strategy

Getting to Less Series

This is the third CSIS Brief in a series called Getting to Less, which explores different philosophies and motivations that could lead to a decreased emphasis on U.S. defense ends, ways, or means. 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. Rather than seek military primacy, which only diverts resources and attention from more constructive statecraft solutions, the United States should strive for a level of military sufficiency that deters adventurism by others—as well as itself. The authors explore likely changes that such a strategy might entail. The brief concludes by exploring the risks and opportunities associated with the Progressive Values Strategy.

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Kathleen Hicks, Joseph P. Federici, Seamus P. Daniels, Rhys McCormick and Lindsey Sheppard, "Getting to Less? The Progressive Values Strategy," Center for Strategic and International Studies, January 30, 2020, last modified January 30, 2020, https://defense360.csis.org/getting-to-less-the-progressive-values-strategy-2/.