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The U.S. defense industrial base is not prepared for the international security environment that now exists, including to deal with China. The United States should take several steps now to strengthen the industrial base to improve deterrence and warfighting.

This report examines trends in Other Transaction Authority (OTA) usage across the DoD to provide insights into how the DoD is using OTAs to pursue innovation, how DoD spending under an OTA is organized, and to whom the majority of OTA obligations go.

These papers explore a range of crucial debates such as the future of arms control and deterrence, emerging technologies, SSBN vulnerability, public opinion, cyber norms, and the role of regional dynamics including China and India in nuclear security.

Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine has galvanized Europe and triggered a renewed focus on hard security and defense. This latest CSIS report analyzes whether European political will to conduct military missions and operations worldwide will be sustained in the coming years.

There are growing calls for a decrease in the United States' military presence in the Middle East. This new CSIS report assesses posture options in the context of Chinese, Russian, Iranian, and other threats in the region.

Technology-enabled influence operations, including disinformation, will likely figure prominently in adversary efforts to impede U.S. crisis response and alliance management in high-risk, high-impact scenarios under a nuclear shadow.

This CSIS report from CSIS's International Security Program and Europe, Russia, and Eurasia program examines the evolution of European military capabilities over the next decade and the types of missions states will be able (and unable) to perform by 2030.

This CSIS report assesses the Biden administration's FY 2022 defense budget request. It outlines the priorities and potential effects of ongoing strategic reviews, tracks current congressional action on FY 2022 defense appropriations, and identifies key issues for FY 2023.

Democratic governance is a critical element of the U.S. strategy to ensure a free and open Indo-Pacific region. This CSIS report catalogues regional efforts to support democracy and recommends ways the United States can partner with like-minded countries in the region.

The CSIS Transnational Threats Project analyzes Russia's increasing use of private military companies as a means to expand its influence, extract resources, and build the capacity of partners and allies through deniable, irregular means.

This analysis from the CSIS Aerospace Security Project addresses different methods and technologies that can be used by the United States government, and others, to protect against or deter adversarial attacks via counterspace weapons.

The authors featured in this CSIS publication were members of The Project on Nuclear Issues' (PONI) 2020 Nuclear Scholars Class. The PONI Nuclear Scholars Initiative is a select group of rising next-gen voices, comprised of graduate students and young professionals.

This collection of essays addresses the interplay of democratic norms and cultural identity within Asia. The overall question for the volume is how the dueling identities of Asianism (regional exceptionalism) and universalism (democratic norms) are shaping state discourse and behavior in Asia.

Information dominance has been essential to ensuring U.S. military effectiveness, sustaining the credibility and assurance of military alliances, and stabilizing or reducing the risks of miscalculation or collateral damage. But can there be too much of a good thing?

CSIS's Mark Cancian analyzes the U.S. military forces in FY 2021, their composition, new initiatives, long-term trends, and challenges, as the United States' military forces likely entered their last year of growth.

With the return of great power competition, the United States needs every advantage it can get over its adversaries. This CSIS report looks at how the U.S. might revitalize the old but overlooked tool of surprise to gain a strategic advantage in great power conflict.

Services account for over 41 percent of DoD contract obligations. This CSIS report looks at a million contracts to evaluate how three factors influence performance: service complexity, contract-management capacity, and vendor's history working with a DoD contracting.

This CSIS report uses budgetary and program data to better understand the historical trends in the relationship of production costs to development costs in complex acquisition programs.

Analysis of the FY 2021 Defense Budget from the CSIS Defense Budget Analysis program provides an in-depth assessment of the Trump administration's request for national defense funding in FY 2021.

In this late-2019 survey of strategic elites in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, CSIS finds divergent views over Chinese influence, and concern for U.S.-China strategic competition and climate change. ASEAN is seen as the key regional institution for collective action.

In this CSIS report, the 2019 PONI Nuclear Scholars touched upon a variety of nuclear security issues ranging from the future of arms-control treaties, the role of AI and cyber resilience in nuclear security, to regional dynamics as it pertains to nuclear weapons.

Ten years of violent insurgency in northeast Nigeria have led to massive humanitarian needs, and the crisis shows no signs of abating. This report from the CSIS Humanitarian Agenda analyzes the challenges and opportunities for generating better humanitarian outcomes.

The CSIS Transnational Threats Project assesses Russia's military and diplomatic campaign in Syria, the largest and most significant Russian out-of-area operation since the end of the Cold War.

This book weaves together the compelling story of social and demographic effects of the economic miracle in South Korea. This exploration of social change examines the demographic dividend: a window of time when a large percentage of a country's population is in the working ages as a result of low fertility and declining mortality.

The contributions contained in this book highlight potential areas for enhanced cooperation between the United States and Japan at a time when the West desperately needs a confident and proactive Japan, and Japan needs sustained American engagement and deterrence in an Asia-Pacific region that will continue to be the site of economic growth.

The papers in this CSIS compendium were written by the nine members of the 2019 TUPP delegation. Each participant was asked to reflect on their in-country experience and produce a short article analyzing a policy issue related to Taiwan.

In this CSIS report, Seth G. Jones analyzes Iran's irregular, conventional, economic, and soft power-as well as its domestic stability-to lay out a containment strategy aimed at curbing Iranian expansion and encouraging its political liberalization.

This report from the CSIS International Security Program analyzes the U.S. military forces in FY 2020, their composition, new initiatives, long-term trends, and challenges, as the United States attempts to align its forces with a strategy of long-term great power competition.

With millions of people around the world living in and traveling through the shadows, The CSIS Project on Prosperity and Development has produced this new report capturing its study of irregular migration and showcasing its field research in Mexico, Eritrea, and Ghana.