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Bad Idea: Competing with China (without Knowing What Winning Looks Like)

If the U.S. is truly planning for a competition with China, it will need to plan for a long-term effort. The planning should be clear about who and what are opposed, what the U.S. expects from China to avoid conflict escalation, the minimal acceptable change it seeks from the Chinese government, and how far the U.S. is willing to go.

Commentary — December 21, 2018

Bad Idea: Conflating the Space Force with NASA

As the administration moves forward with establishing a new military service focused on space, leaders should keep their language clear and use this opportunity to educate the public about both civil and national security space. Keeping NASA and the Space Force separate rhetorically and organizationally is best for national security and for space exploration.

Commentary — December 21, 2018

Bad Idea: Sectored Air and Missile Defense Radars

In a world where unmanned aerial vehicles are plentiful, cruise missiles are becoming more abundant, and hypersonic boost glide vehicles are just over the horizon, air and missile threats are coming from all directions. To address the realities of this environment, effective defenses require an air and missile defense sensor architecture that looks in all directions as well.

Commentary — December 21, 2018

Bad Idea: Demanding Allies Spend Two Percent of GDP on Defense

It’s time we ditch the two percent (or any percent) of GDP metric for allied defense spending and focus on what really matters—capability, capacity, readiness, and interoperability. In the end, it’s not about how much of our allies’ economic output is directed to defense, and this metric does little to incentivize the results we want to see.

Commentary — December 21, 2018

A CSO Playbook to Reclaim Civic Space: Version 1.0

This brief consolidates key lessons and recommendations from several years of research conducted by the CSIS International Consortium on Closing Civic Space (iCon) regarding how civil society can respond to narrowing civic space.

Report by Amy K. Lehr and Catherine Hyde Townsend — December 21, 2018

The Mattis Resignation: What Does It Mean for the Future of National Security?

Many commentators regard Defense Secretary Mattis’s departure with concern because he was seen as an experienced and moderating voice in an administration that tended to the erratic. So, there is a high level of uncertainty and anxiety about what happens next.

Critical Questions by Mark F. Cancian, Todd Harrison, and Andrew P. Hunter — December 21, 2018

Bad Idea: Sectored Air and Missile Defense Radars

In a world where unmanned aerial vehicles are plentiful, effective defenses require an air and missile defense sensor architecture that looks in all directions as well to address the realities of this environment.

Commentary by Tom Karako — December 21, 2018

Why Putin Targets Minorities

The two recently released Senate-commissioned reports, prepared by New Knowledge and the Computational Propaganda Research Project, describe in detail how Russia targeted specific groups with disinformation campaigns.

Commentary by Suzanne Spaulding, Devi Nair, and Arthur Nelson — December 21, 2018

Bad Idea: Scrapping the Federal Acquisition Regulation

The Federal Acquisition Regulation can and should be improved. But tossing it out and starting over will slow, not accelerate, acquisition in the near term. Worse, it will ultimately undermine the usefulness of the alternative pathways that we are currently developing.

Commentary by Andrew P. Hunter — December 21, 2018

Into the Great Wide Open: How Millennials Look at Trade

There is another aspect to demographic reality that deserves some comment, and that is how a changing population inside a country changes its politics and policy, as CSIS Scholl Chair William Reinsch writes in his commentary.

Commentary by William Alan Reinsch — December 21, 2018