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American Grand Strategy and Seapower Conference Report
November 30, 2011

On August 4, 2011, CNA convened a conference of leading international security, foreign policy, and maritime strategy experts at the Army and Navy Club in Washington, D.C. Its purpose was to examine U.S. grand and naval strategy in light of new domestic and international dynamics, and to discuss the strategic principles that should inform the Nation and its naval services in the coming decades.

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Ensuring Americas Freedom of Movement: A National Security Imperative to Reduce U.S. Oil Dependence
November 1, 2011

In 2006, CNA brought together 11 recently retired three and four-star generals and admirals to form a Military Advisory Board (MAB), with the goal of examining the national security implications of climate change. Over the last five years, the CNA MAB has published three reports on the nexus of energy, climate, and national security. In this report the MAB focuses on the national security implications associated with shifting the U.S. transportation sector to alternative fuels.

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Powering America's Economy: Energy Innovation at the Crossroads of National Security Challenges
July 27, 2010

This report explores the growing challenges presented by the links that tie the nation’s current energy posture to its economy and national security. It looks at the potential opportunities that could result from the transition to a clean energy technology-based economy and the key role that the Department of Defense (DOD) can play to support innovation and commercialization of clean, low carbon energy, thereby directly contributing to America’s future economic competitiveness and bolstering national security.

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Powering America’s Defense: Energy and the Risks to National Security
May 1, 2009

This report by CNA's Military Advisory Board (MAB) explores the impact of America's energy choices on our national security policies. This report follows the MAB's groundbreaking 2007 report National Security and the Threat of Climate Change, which found that "climate change, national security, and energy dependence are a related set of global challenges." This new volume builds on that finding by considering: the security risks inherent in our current energy posture; energy choices the nation can make to enhance our national security; the impact of climate change on our energy choices and our national security; and the role the Department of Defense can play in the nation’s approach to energy security and climate change.

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The Future of National Security: A Report on Workshops in Four Cities in 2000 with Annotated Updating Observations After 9/11/2001
August 1, 2002
In preparation for the transition to a new Administration in January 2001, CNAC conducted workshops with informed citizens in four U.S. cities: New York, Chicago, Atlanta, and San Francisco, with the last one conducted in December 2000. This report summarizes the views of those workshops participants. They were especially concerned that the United States stay active in the day-to-day world, and were less interested in transformation of U.S. forces for the future or in national missile defense. While circumstances have not permitted us to return for more discussions in these cities after 9/11/2001, we have nonetheless annotated this report to extrapolate their views to the post-9/11 situation. We believe that they would have fully supported the global war on terror, in close coordination with our allies around the world.
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Globalization and the U.S Navy: An Annotated Briefing
July 1, 2002
Abstract:D6753 This study draws the connections from globalization to the U.S. Navy. "Globalization" is the description these days of the world system and its process of evolution, taking account of the attacks on 9/11/2001. The study draws attention to the gap between the core countries involved in globalization (a core that may expand) and those countries that are having difficulty integrating into the globalization system. The gap is particularly acute in the Middle East and South and Central Asia. The U.S. Navy plays an important role in joint forces in the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean, and many of its improvements are appropriate to possible conflicts there. Its second role is contributing to stability in East Asia, and its tertiary role is visiting and exercising with allied navies. It is the best and biggest ocean-going navy in the world, and will remain so for the indefinite future. Altogether, though, these circumstances provide little guidance for the size and configuration of the U.S. Navy.
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European Security & Russia: A Workshop at CNAC, 13 April 2001
July 1, 2001
CNAC has had a program of seminars with its Russian counterparts since 1991. We have discussed a range of issues, from strategic nuclear matters to naval cooperation. For the seminar we are planning in Russia in the summer or fall of 2001, one of the prime agenda items will be the long-term future of the relation of Russia to European security (assuming the United States has a long-term future relation in Europe as well). As part of our preparations for the seminar, we organized a workshop to discuss the issues of Russia and European security. It was held at CNA on 13 April 2001. The format of the workshop involved five speakers, each addressing one of five scenarios chosen to raise a full range of issues. The scenarios, described in this paper, are: 1) NATO expansion to Russia's borders; 2) bringing Russia into NATO; 3) Russia and Europe gradually converging in matters of security; 4) Europe creates a security infrastructure separate from U.S. and from Russia; and 5) drift in European security arrangements.
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U.S. National Security -- The Next 50 Years
October 1, 2000
Dr. Harold Brown is the sixth person to be presented with the Paul H. Nitze Award. In this paper he offers a broad overview of U.S. national security objectives and required military capabilities beginning with the Cold War and suggest policies to deal with security and political trends during the next 50 years such as the prospect of an adversarial alliance among rising and resurgent powers; outside military intervention in response to internal tyranny, ethnic conflicts, or other human rights issues; challenges to nation-states presented by supranational agencies and supranational currencies; and, economic globalization and technological advances.
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