The CNA Security Initiatives Group focuses on broad issues of national strategy, in particular the maritime component of national security strategy with an emphasis on assessing real world military operations including transformation initiatives.

This team includes experts in futures planning, long-term trend analysis based on scenario planning and the analysis of the recent past to help key decision-makers think constructively about the future.

The group also has expertise in regional and global proliferation issues, deterrence theory, threat mitigation, and strategic planning for combating threats from weapons of mass destruction. Like other CNA Strategic Studies teams, the focus is on empirically based research that reaches judgments based on facts and data, not opinion.