These are extraordinary times in U.S. national security policy. America remains engaged in both Iraq and Afghanistan while facing a global economic downturn.

Taking advantage of an unusually wide open Presidential race, Opportunity 08 offers provocative and challenging recommendations on issues such as climate change, the budget deficit, energy security, health care, homeland…

This updated edition incorporates lessons from the war in Afghanistan, other developemnts since September 11, and a critical assessment of the Bush administration’s defense strategy and budget plan, both of…

Arms control, for decades at the core of the foreign policy consensus, today is among the more contentious issues in American politics. It is pilloried and considered out of mode…

This paper, by Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution, reconstitutes SSI's Letort Papers series. This group of publications include papers, retrospectives, speeches or essays of interest to the defense academic…

In this book foreign policy experts analyze current U.S.security concerns and the adequacy (or inadequacy) of current policies designed to address them. The authors present both the big picture and…