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April 14, 2021 Preface It is in the United States’ strategic interests to ensure that the world mobilizes effectively to end the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. A proactive U.S. role is essential to secure the gains underway in the United States and ensure Americans’ health, safety, and prosperity into the future. Helping to secure the future of lower- and middle-income countries is also simply the right thing to do, on humanitarian, economic, and security grounds. Today, the United States is quickly ...

The Buck Stops Here: Hold High-Ranking Officers Responsible for Training Accidents A U.S. Marine carries a pair of combat boots during a memorial service at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Aug. 21, 2020, held in remembrance of the eight Marines and one sailor from Bravo Company, BLT 1/4, 15th MEU, who died in an assault amphibious vehicle mishap (U.S. Marine Corps/Cpl. Dalton S. Swanbeck) 5 Apr 2021 Military.com | By Micha...

Jonathan Bydlak, R Street Institute Andrew Lautz, National Taxpayers Union Mark Cancian (Colonel, USMCR, ret.), Senior Adviser with the CSIS International Security Program. On Thursday, March 11 at 12:00 p.m. ET, Pentagon Chief Management Officer Lisa Hershman will join National Taxpayers Union (NTU) Andrew Lautz and R Street’s Jonathan Bydlak for the second webinar in their Pentagon Purse Strings series. Hershman, the third-ranking civilian officer at the Pentagon and the highest-ranking wom...

Friday, March 12, 2021 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm As part of its  Strategic Dialogue on Civic Education as a National Security Imperative, CSIS invites you to a conversation with  FBI Director Christopher Wray and national security lawyers to get their perspectives on why civic education is a national security issue. Why is it important for the American public to understand the role of national security institutions and the rule of law in our democracy? Why is it important for individuals operating ...

Monday, March 8, 2021 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Please join the Center for Strategic and International Studies for a Smart Women, Smart Power celebration of International Women’s Day featuring New York Times best-selling author Gayle Tzemach Lemmon. She will discuss her new book, The Daughters of Kobani (2021), her best-selling book Ashley’s War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield (2015), which is being made into a major motion picture, and her extensive res...

Please join the CSIS Missile Defense Project on February 23 for a conversation on missile defense and defeat with General John Hyten, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The discussion will address the interrelation of active missile defense, non-nuclear missile defeat, and deterrence. This event is made possible through general support to CSIS.

Experts from across government, the private sector and security research community will vote on the most pressing issues in the field.

The Pentagon spends billions of our tax dollars on planes, ships, missiles and other high-priced items, but the overlooked infantry often have to make do with second-rate and third-rate vehicles, which are killing far too many of our young people, many of them dying in their teens.

Friday, February 19, 2021 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Please join CSISs Defense Industrial Initiatives Group and the National Defense Industrial Association February 19th at 12:00 for a panel discussion on Title XVIII of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021.  Title XVIII of the FY21 NDAA provided for a reorganization of acquisition statutes in Title 10 of U.S. Code and provides for a one year phase in period to allow time for feedback from stakeholders and experts on the reorg...

As the Biden administration takes office, Defense360’s Transition46 series provides insights from CSIS’s International Security Program scholars on the challenges the new administration faces and recommendations for what should change in U.S. defense strategy, forces, operations, and institutions. Our scholars each week will publish short pieces drawing from their expertise to