Center for Strategic Communication

The Future of 21st Century Nuclear Warfare in the DoD

By Joshua Miller Since the fall of the Berlin wall, the world has entered a radically different era than it once was in the 1950s. In the thick of the Cold War, the United States maintained an arsenal of over 10,000 nuclear warheads in a nuclear triad capability –...

Making the case for U.S. leadership in the Pacific

Last week, Deputy Secretary of Defense Ash Carter visited U.S. allies in Asia, the latest emissary sent forth to reinforce the shift of U.S. military and diplomatic focus from the Middle East and Central Asia to the Pacific. “We in the United States are currently...

DoD’s Biofuels Program

For the U.S. military – and the U.S. economy as a whole – dependence on oil presents real threats to national security. Over the last five years, the U.S. Department of Defense has begun to act to reduce these energy security threats by helping to create alternatives...

MRAPs Reach End of Line in Afghanistan

At the height of the Iraq War, the Department of Defense developed an emergency program of combat vehicles designed to protect troops from prevalent and highly destructive improvised explosive devices (IEDs). First fielded in 2007, the Mine-Resistant...