Resources
CSBA’s research on the most pressing issues in U.S. national security continues to shape the defense agenda. CSBA’s research focuses on four main areas:
Strategy & Policy
Today, the United States confronts a number of challenges to its national security: the rise of China, a revisionist Russia, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and disruption, and the spread of Islamic extremism. The United States finds itself tackling these challenges at a time when its primacy is increasingly contested and its economic foundation eroding. CSBA seeks to inform the development of U.S. strategy by developing innovative options to reconcile ends and means, and by identifying sources of enduring advantage to help the U.S. sustain its position and meet challenges of the 21st century.
Studies
Rising Stars Over the Pacific? Cultivating Indo-Pacific Expertise in the U.S. Armed Forces
The last four presidential administrations have assessed the Indo-Pacific region to be the world's most consequential theater for U.S. national security. In Rising Stars Over the Pacific? Cultivating Indo-Pacific Expertise in the U.S. Armed Forces, Thomas G. Mahnken and Thomas P. Mahnken explore how the policies and practices of the U.S. armed Services have reflected this political and strategic shift toward the Indo-Pacific. More broadly, they examine how the prioritization of various geographic theaters has evolved over the past quarter century as well as the extent to which the incentive structures of the Services have accommodated those changes.