Making Hard National Security Choices
Chris, Zack, and Melanie sit down to discuss Richard Fontaine's recent Foreign Affairs article on prioritizing national security threats. Why is it so hard for those in charge of the nation's security...
8 Dec 202259min
Why The United States No Longer Leads on Free Trade
Chris, Melanie, and Zack try to understand the U.S. government's approach to global trade. Two successive presidential administrations have turned their backs on trade liberalization, and there is lit...
28 Nov 20221h 1min
Debating the National Defense Strategy
Is the National Defense Strategy actually a strategy? Melanie, Chris, and Zack debate the Biden administration's recently released National Defense Strategy. Do integrated deterrence, campaign, and en...
10 Nov 20221h 2min
Assessing the National Security Strategy
Chris, Zack, and Melanie sit down to talk about the recently-released Biden-Harris National Security Strategy. Several months delayed, the document recognizes that the United States is in an intense c...
28 Okt 20221h 8min
Searching for the Elusive Rules-Based Order
Chris, Zack, and special guest host Rachel Hoff of the Ronald Reagan Institute, explore the recent article by Dani Rodrik and Stephen Walt "How to Build a Better Order: Limiting Great Power Rivalry in...
13 Okt 202259min
Military Lessons from the War in Ukraine
The Net Assessment crew discusses possible military lessons from the war in Ukraine. It is too early to take away any definitive lessons from the war, but it is possible to start identifying and askin...
29 Sep 20221h 7min
Galvanizing America's Defense Industrial Policy
This week, Chris, Zack, and Melanie talk about a new report, "Rebuild: Toolkit for a New American Industrial Policy," from the Center for a New American Security. The United States government has a nu...
15 Sep 202254min
Not Their Plane to Land: Generals Thwarting the Chain of Command?
Chris, Melanie, and Zack discuss Doyle Hodges' recent article scrutinizing Gen. Mark Milley's behavior in the waning months of the Trump administration. Journalists have rendered a relatively favorabl...
1 Sep 202258min
