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Center for a New American Security/Related Articles
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Parent topics
- Think tank [r]: An organization that presents ideas as expert analysis, the level of objectivity of which varies with the institution, but with an implication of at least some intellectual independence. [e]
- Grand strategy [r]: The application of all national means of affecting the actions of other nations and non-national actors; specifically includes but is not restricted to military means [e]
Subtopics
- Nathaniel Fick [r]: President and previously Chief Operating Officer Center for a New American Security;counterinsurgency theorist; United States Marine Corps officer in the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars ; Visiting Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies [e]
- John Nagl [r]: President of the Center for a New American Security; member of the Defense Policy Board,a Visiting Professor in the War Studies Department at Kings College of London, member Council on Foreign Relations, International Institute for Strategic Studies; retired lieutenant colonel, United States Army; combat experience in Gulf War and Iraq War [e]
- Kristin Lord [r]: Vvice president and director of studies, Center for a New American Security; Nonresident Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, U.S. Relations with the Islamic World, Brookings Institution [e]
- Andrew Exum [r]: A Fellow with the Center for a New American Security, who has done fieldwork in Lebanon, served as a U.S. Army infantry officer in Afghanistan and Iraq, and worked in evaluation for United States Central Command [e]
Board of Advisors
- Steve Biegun [r]: Vice President for International Governmental Affairs, Ford Motor Company; Board of advisors, Center for a New American Security [e]
- Hans Binnendijk [r]: Vice President for Research of the National Defense University; Strategic Advisory Group, Atlantic Council; Board of advisors, Center for a New American Security; Former Senior Director for Defense Policy, National Security Council; Expert panel, Iraq Study Group [e]
- Peter Feaver [r]: Alexander F. Hehmeyer Professor of Political Science and Public Policy — Duke University; Board of advisors, Center for a New American Security [e]
- Stephen Friedman [r]: Chairman — Stone Point Capital, LLC; Board of advisors, Center for a New American Security [e]
- Michael Green [r]: Board of advisors, Center for a New American Security; Senior Advisor and Japan Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies [e]
- Andrew Hoehn [r]: Vice President, RAND Corporation, for Project Air Force; board of advisers, Center for a New American Security; deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy from 1998 to 2004 [e]
- Jill Iscol [r]: President, IF Hummingbird Foundation; Board of advisors, Center for a New American Security, J Street [e]
- David Kilcullen [r]: A former Australian infantry officer with a doctorate in the study of insurgency and history, he is an advisor on counterinsurgency to the Australian and U.S. governments. His models draw a sharp distinction between the tactic of terror, and the conduct of wars that make use of that tactic. Board of Advisors, Center for a New American Security [e]
- Marc Lasry [r]: Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder — Avenue Capital Group; Board of advisors, Center for a New American Security [e]
- Hassan Nemazee [r]: Chairman and CEO, Nemazee Capital Corporation; Board of advisors, Center for a New American Security; U.S. Democratic Party fundraiser; indicted for financial fraud in September 2009 [e]
- Michael O'Hanlon [r]: Senior fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution; Member, International Security Advisory Board, United States Department of State; Advisory council, Center for a New American Security; visiting lecturer at Princeton University; member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Council on Foreign Relations [e]
- Randy Schriver [r]: One of five founding partners of Armitage International LLC, a consulting firm that specializes in international business development and strategies; Advisory Council to the Center for a New American Security; Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; previously Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affair; served for two years as Chief of Staff and Senior Policy Advisor to Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage [e]
- Sarah Sewall [r]: Director of the Program on National Security and Human Rights and lecturer in international affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government; headed the Barack Obama Transitions National Security Agency Review; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Assistance. From 1983-1996, she served as Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell on the Democratic Policy Committee and the Senate Arms Control Observer Group; coauthor of Field Manual 3-24: Counterinsurgency; Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee and the Center for Naval Analyses; Rhodes Scholar; Advisory council, Center for a New American Security [e]
- Wendy Sherman [r]: Principal of The Albright Group LLC, an investment advisory firm focused on emerging markets; member of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism; Advisory Council of the Center for a New American Security, member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Aspen Strategy Group of the Aspen Institute, US-India Strategic Dialogue, Australian American Leadership Dialogue. director of Oxfam America; previously Counselor of the U.S. Department of State [e]
- Jim Thomas [r]: Vice President for Studies at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, board member at the Center for a New American Security; 13 years in a variety of policy, planning and resource analysis posts in the Department of Defense, culminating in his dual appointment as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Resources and Plans and Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy; Principal author of the 2004 Quarterly Defense Report; foreign technology analyst at Los Alamos National Laboratory for the Gulf War; research assistant to Paul Nitze; From 1995 to 1998, he managed a NATO counter-proliferation initiative and wrote three reports endorsed by Allied Foreign and Defense Ministers to integrate countering-WMD as a mission area into NATO post-Cold War force planning. From 1998 to 1999, he was seconded to the International Institute for Strategic Studies [e]
Alumni
- Kurt Campbell [r]: Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian Affairs in the Obama Administration; co-founder of the Center for a New American Security; Aspen Strategy Group, Aspen Institute; spouse of Lael Brainard [e]
- Michelle Flournoy [r]: U.S. strategic analyst; Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in the Obama administration; Aspen Strategy Group, Aspen Institute; cofounder of the Center for a New American Security; Expert panel, Iraq Study Group [e]
- Colin Kahl [r]: U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, on leave from faculty at Georgetown University; research fellow at Center for a New American Security and other think tanks dealing with counterinsurgency, military law and Iraq [e]
- Richard Armitage [r]: A U.S. foreign policy specialist, first a U.S. Navy officer in the Vietnam War, who rose to positions including Deputy Secretary of State in the first term of the George W. Bush Administration; board, International Crisis Group; Aspen Strategy Group, Aspen Institute [e]
- Brookings Institution [r]: Generally considered neutral in its overall output, a large think tank in Washington, D.C. [e]}
- Council on Foreign Relations [r]: An influential "think tank", publisher, and facilitator of communications in international relations; based in the US but with an international membership and not associated with a specific ideology [e]
- Center for Strategic and International Studies [r]: A bipartisan U.S. think tank that does research and policy recommendations in international affairs, headquartered in Washington, D.C. [e]
- David Petraeus [r]: General, U.S. Army, presently commanding United States Central Command after having the senior command in Iraq, long associated with counterinsurgency doctrine [e]
- RAND Corporation [r]: Among the oldest of think tanks, established by the fledgling United States Air Force to provide alternate perspectives on its concepts; now broadened to working on an extremely wide range of politicomilitary and social issues [e]
- Dennis Ross [r]: Special assistant to President Barack Obama and senior director of the Central Region on the National Security Council staff, who has served in the Carter, George W. Bush, Reagan and Clinton Administrations; Aspen Strategy Group, Aspen Institute; former Ziegler Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Board of Editors, Middle East Quarterly [e]
- Richard Perle [r]: An American political scientist who has been an important advisor and facilitator, rather than executive, for U.S. foreign policy and is associated with neoconservatism [e]
