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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]
• United States Air Force [r]: One of the uniformed services of the United States, with principal responsibility for land-based long-range and high-performance aircraft, as well as land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles ^[e]

Subtopics

Experts

• C. Christine Fair [r]: Political scientist, specializing in South Asian military affairs, for the RAND Corporation; author of Cuisines of the Axis of Evil and Other Irritating States: A Dinner Party Approach to International Relations ^[e]
• James Dobbins [r]: Director, International Security and Defense Policy Center, RAND Corporation; expert panel, Iraq Study Group ^[e]
• Bruce Hoffman [r]: Terrorism author; Professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University; previously an executive and researcher with the RAND Corporation; board member, Jamestown Foundation; Board, Terrorism/Counterterrorism, Human Rights Watch; Expert panel, Iraq Study Group ^[e]
• Fred Ikle [r]: Researcher and professor of international affairs, especially negotiation and decisionmaking; Distinguished Scholar, Center for Strategic and International Studies; subcabinet national security official in multiple Republican administrations; advisory council, The National Interest; board of advisers, American Foreign Policy Council; Board Member, Defense Forum Foundation; Board member, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea; member Defense Policy Board; Governor, Smith Richardson Foundation; former head of the social science department of the RAND Corporation ^[e]

Former affiliates

• Henry Kissinger [r]: (1923—) American academic, diplomat, and simultaneously Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Secretary of State in the Nixon Administration; promoted realism (foreign policy) and détente with China and the Soviet Union; shared 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for ending the Vietnam War; Director, Atlantic Council ^[e]
• Robert Komer [r]: U.S. national security official (1922-2000), best known for heading the U.S. pacification program during the Vietnam War, in the Johnson Administration ^[e]
• Abram Shulsky [r]: An American national security policy expert, generally associated with an interventionist foreign policy, who headed the Office of Special Plans in the U.S. Department of Defense of the George W. Bush Administration; theoretician of intelligence analysis ^[e]
• Albert Wohlstetter [r]: (1913-1997) A major U.S. strategic researcher, first at the RAND Corporation and then University of Chicago; areas of interest included survivable deterrence, flexible nuclear and non-nuclear response, and the difficulties of verification in arms control; spouse of Roberta Wohlstetter ^[e]
• Roberta Wohlstetter [r]: (1912-2007) U.S. strategic analyst, on the staff of the RAND Corporation; author of definitive text Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision; spouse of Albert Wohlstetter ^[e]
• Paul Wolfowitz [r]: An American political scientist and policy-level foreign affairs official, of a neoconservative ideology; resident American Enterprise Institute and on International Security Advisory Board; Deputy Secretary of Defense in the George W. Bush Administration; advisor, Project for the New American Century ^[e]

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Other think tanks

• Brookings Institution [r]: Generally considered neutral in its overall output, a large think tank in Washington, D.C. ^[e]
• Center for Naval Analyses [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hudson Institute [r]: A US think tank emphasizing futures studies, nonpartisan but conservative-leaning ^[e]
• Institute for Defense Analyses [r]: A U.S. government-funded think tank, originally created in 1947, principally to assist the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff in weapons evaluation, and then monitoring and guiding research. Its mission has broadened to include the support of several other Federal agencies, including Presidential staff ^[e]
• Jamestown Foundation [r]: A U.S. think tank and publisher of foreign policy and terrorism information, with an early goal of providing support to Soviet defectors, now a general resource ^[e]
• MITRE Corporation [r]: Add brief definition or description

Publications

• America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy [r]: A 2006 book by Francis Fukuyama, examining the role of neoconservatism in American foreign policy, its execution by the George W. Bush Administration, and a proposed evolved political philosophy to replace it ^[e]
• National Interest (magazine) [r]: An online and quarterly print publication on international affairs, broadly from the perspective of neoconservatism ^[e]

Areas of interest

• Federally Administered Tribal Area (Pakistan) [r]: A region of Pakistan that is outside the regular system of Pakistani provincial government, involving a combination of tribal leaders and "agents" of the national government; the subdivisions are called "agencies", not "provinces"; from an international standpoint, it is fairly lawless ^[e]
• Kyrgyzstan [r]: A landlocked central Asian nation, formerly part of the Soviet Union; after a coup, it successfully held democratic elections ^[e]