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Professor Odest Chadwicke Jenkins Joins CNA's Board of Trustees

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CNA President and CEO Katherine McGrady today announced that Prof. Odest Chadwicke Jenkins is joining the CNA Board of Trustees. Jenkins is a professor of computer science and engineering and associate director of the Robotics Institute at the University of Michigan.

and the National Science Foundation. "His experience aligns very well with the strategic imperatives of CNA as we seek to provide our sponsors and clients with analysis and research that support the safety

National Security Seminar September 2023

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Three emergency managers and CNA analysts discuss a meta-analysis of over 75 COVID-19 after-action reports in this summary of a CNA National Security Seminar.

Tuneberg, co-founder and CEO of Geospiza and former lead of Colorado’s Innovation Response Team. Dr. Carrie Shelton, Senior Research Scientist with the Center for Critical Incident Analysis in CNA’s ... opportunities for public and private partnerships. As states were competing for limited federal resources from the Strategic National Stockpile, emergency management agencies began looking to both domestic

NSS Event September 29 2022

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Critical minerals are vital to US National Security, and the government is investing in supplies, a panel from DOD and USGS told CNA’s National Security Seminar.

under-mapped compared to other developed nations, but that USGS is currently leading a survey initiative to chart the total domestic resource base. She also highlighted the importance of conducting analysis ... DOD report : (1) critical and strategic minerals and materials, (2) batteries and energy storage, (3) micro-electronics, (4) casting and forging, and (5) kinetic capabilities. DOD has multiple tools

Case Study Supply Chain Resilience-Puget Sound

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The Puget Sound region built public-private relationships for grocery supply chain resilience to prepare for earthquakes. COVID put them to the test.

earthquake. During this project, in August and September 2019, a set of private-private and private-public relationships were built around an analysis of how grocery flows in the Puget Sound region might ... in facilitating a more effective response. This assessment explores these impressions and possible “unintended consequences” of the 2019 project, and derives potential strategic and operational implications

Maritime Sabotage: Lessons Learned and Implications for Strategic Competition

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Warring sides have undertaken sabotage operations throughout history to generate battlefield effects, with varying degrees of success.

Maritime Sabotage: Lessons Learned and Implications for Strategic Competition Maritime Sabotage: Lessons Learned and Implications for Strategic Competition Warring sides have undertaken sabotage ... , for example, the US Office of Strategic Services built a reputation for conducting sabotage across several theaters of operation and in multiple domains. However, over the past 20 years, SOF have focused ... conducting the sabotage act, and the overall success of an operation in achieving its desired objectives. Among the findings from this descriptive analysis are the following: World War II appears

North Korea A Case Study of Asymmetric Relations

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Examining North Korea as a case study for asymmetric relations and the issue of its nuclear weapons development as the threat to status quo in the international order.

or strategic patience—similar to the Obama administration’s foreign policy toward asymmetrically weaker adversaries who defied key US security objectives. Based on the unique circumstances of these adversaries, a return to traditional pressure strategies would likely lead to continued stalemate or, worse, the growth of an adversarial threat held unaccountable. Through an empirical analysis

Maritime Sabotage and Implications for Strategic Competition

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Warring sides have undertaken sabotage operations throughout history to generate battlefield effects, with varying degrees of success. In many cases, the forces conducting these operations have been special operations forces, their predecessors, or intelligence agencies. CNA initiated a quick-look study to examine past instances of sabotage in order to derive lessons and best practices for the future conduct of such operations. To increase the utility of the study for US Navy and US Marine Corps organizations, and because of the dearth of prior research on the topic, we focused our efforts on examining sabotage in the maritime domain. We generated a dataset of maritime sabotage instances dating back to World War II and analyzed this dataset according to a set of coding variables. These coding variables allowed us to perform both descriptive analysis of the dataset, as well as exploratory analysis.

Maritime Sabotage and Implications for Strategic Competition Maritime Sabotage: Lessons Learned and Implications for Strategic Competition Warring sides have undertaken sabotage operations throughout ... analysis of the dataset, as well as exploratory analysis. Warring sides have undertaken sabotage operations throughout history to generate battlefield effects, with varying degrees of success. In many cases, the forces conducting these operations have been special operations forces (SOF), their predecessors, or intelligence agencies. During World War II, for example, the US Office of Strategic Services

GPC Assumptions Behind the Headlines

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On April 30, 2020, CNA’s Strategy and Policy Analysis (SPA) program hosted an on-the-record virtual event to analyze great power competition (GPC) as a concept for US national strategy and defense planning and for what it means to compete as US policy evolves. The discussion was motivated by CNA’s recent publication Great Power Relations: What Makes Powers Great and Why Do They Compete? The event, built on themes from our report, explored the implicit theoretical assumptions on which GPC is based, the strategic implications of what it means to be a great power, and the role of cooperation with competitors even in an era of GPC. The discussion took particular aim at how these issues converge in the arena of day-to-day competition. The event featured CNA analysts Dr. Joshua Tallis and Dr. David Knoll and the director of CNA’s SPA program, Ms. Nilanthi Samaranayake.

GPC Assumptions Behind the Headlines Great Power Competition: Assumptions Behind the Headlines On April 30, 2020, CNA’s Strategy and Policy Analysis (SPA) program hosted an on-the-record virtual ... , the strategic implications of what it means to be a great power, and the role of cooperation with competitors even in an era of GPC. The discussion took particular aim at how these issues converge ... On April 30, 2020, CNA’s Strategy and Policy Analysis (SPA) program hosted a virtual event to analyze great power competition (GPC), exploring theoretical assumptions within GPC, what it means

Proxy Warfare

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Proxy warfare—that is, conflict in which a “major power instigates or plays a major role in supporting and directing to a conflict but does only a small portion of the actual fighting itself”—is receiving new attention from policymakers, analysts, and practitioners. This study uses a series of four case studies on US involvement in proxy war (the “Secret War” in Laos, the Contras in Central America, the African Union Mission in Somalia, and the Syrian Defense Forces) to develop a set of key themes. These themes, in turn, form the basis of a set of rules of thumb to guide senior decisionmakers as they contemplate the future use of proxy forces. Finally, this report discusses implications for U.S. Special Operations Forces, which are likely to play an increasingly important role in supporting U.S. proxies.

to the contras in Central America). These case studies explore a common set of factors, including US and proxy objectives, the nature of US support, battlefield performance, and strategic and other impacts and consequences. We then used these factors as the foundation for a comparative analysis, which we used to identify seven key themes across the cases: Proxy forces have helped the United States

Cryptocurrency Implications

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Cryptocurrencies are strictly digital currencies, are typically overseen by a decentralized peer-to-peer community, and are secured through cryptography. Cryptocurrencies have relative benefits for those who engage in illicit activity. This paper includes: (1) a detailed taxonomy and examples of nefarious activities involving cryptocurrencies, such as funding terrorist activity, money laundering, cybercrimes, and regulatory crimes; (2) a discussion of state-actor engagement in the cryptocurrency arena that explores Iranian, North Korean, Russian, and Venezuelan activity in skirting sanctions, mining cryptocurrencies, participating in exchange hacking and ransomware, and using cryptocurrencies to fund information operations; (3) analysis attempting to anticipate the mid-term future of the cryptocurrency ecosystem; and (4) the tactical and strategic challenges and opportunities of cryptocurrencies for US special operations forces.

information operations; (3) analysis attempting to anticipate the mid-term future of the cryptocurrency ecosystem; and (4) the tactical and strategic challenges and opportunities of cryptocurrencies ... , and focuses on the four questions that motivated our analysis of the implications of cryptocurrencies for SOF:      1. What operational considerations are relevant as SOF considers action in this arena