Search Results

Your search for Policy Analysis found 281 results.

Veronica De Allende

/our-experts/deallende-veronica

Veronica De Allende is a CNA expert in international and development economics, with 15 years of experience as an operations research scientist at the Defense Department.

. Recently, she was Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Advisor at the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Policy, Stability and Humanitarian Affairs and at the Defense Security Cooperation Agency. She has extensive in-country research fieldwork experience in Latin America, the Caribbean, West Africa and Southeast Asia, conducting root-cause research analysis and providing policy advice to high-level government and military officials. Her areas of expertise include foreign security assistance, security cooperation, humanitarian assistance and disaster-response preparedness, organizational analysis

Darlene Onuorah

/our-experts/onuorah-darlene

Onuorah-Darlene /images/Experts/Onuorah-Darlene.webp Darlene Onuorah specializes in US-Japan relations, Japanese defense and foreign policy, and Northeast Asian security affairs. Her research at CNA focuses on the political-military dynamics of US allies and partners, maritime security cooperation, and regional media analysis. Prior to joining CNA, Onuorah worked as a project associate ... Korea policy exchanges. Onuorah earned a Master of Arts in international affairs with a concentration in US foreign policy from George Washington University and a Bachelor of Arts in global studies from

Ryan Baker

/our-experts/baker-ryan

Baker-Ryan /images/Experts/Baker-Ryan.webp Ryan Baker specializes in policy analysis, program evaluation, research design, and Marine Corps operations. As part of CNA’s Scientific Analyst Program, he serves as the primary liaison between CNA and Training and Education Command (TECOM), a Marine Corps command in Virginia. Baker is also a reserve officer in the Marine Corps with a background ... and once aboard USS Peleliu . Baker holds a PhD in public policy and a Master of Arts in security studies from George Washington University, as well as a Bachelor of Science in political science from

David Knoll

/our-experts/knoll-david

David Knoll is a CNA expert in irregular warfare, military innovation, and force planning analysis.

to 2024, Knoll was the director of analysis in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy. His team led the development of Defense Planning Scenarios, the primary analytical guidance for force planning in the Department of Defense. He was also on the 2022 National Defense Strategy core writing team. From 2022 to 2023, Knoll concurrently served as director of the OSD Policy, Joint Staff ... Knoll-David David Knoll is a CNA expert in irregular warfare, military innovation, and force planning analysis. /images/Experts/Knoll-David.webp David Knoll is an expert in force design, irregular

Jennifer Lafferty

/our-experts/lafferty-jennifer

Jennifer Lafferty is a CNA expert in the criminal justice system and has specialized knowledge in sentencing, courts and corrections.

and the National District Attorneys Association). Her recent work also includes a staffing analysis of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and traffic stop analyses for the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office ... in juvenile detention centers.   Before joining CNA, Lafferty was a research assistant at the University of Maryland, a policy analyst at the Maryland State Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy

Elizabeth Wishnick

/our-experts/wishnick-elizabeth

Elizabeth Wishnick is a CNA expert on Sino-Russian relations and Chinese foreign policy and Arctic strategy.

Wishnick-Elizabeth Elizabeth Wishnick is a CNA expert on Sino-Russian relations and Chinese foreign policy and Arctic strategy. /images/Experts/Wishnick-Elizabeth.webp Elizabeth Wishnick is an expert on Sino-Russian relations, People’s Republic of China and Russian security policy, Asian security, polar strategy, and resource security. At CNA, Wishnick contributes her dual regional expertise on China and Russia, including professional proficiency in both languages, to research and analysis of Xi Jinping’s risk-taking, Sino-Russian military cooperation, PRC and Russian security policy

US and Allied Basing Rights

/analyses/2020/07/us-and-allied-basing-rights

On June 24, 2020, CNA’s Strategy and Policy Analysis program hosted an on-the-record virtual event about Diego Garcia to discuss how developments in sovereignty politics could affect US and allied military basing rights around the world in an era of great power competition. The event featured Mauritius’ Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Jagdish Koonjul, CNA’s vice president and general counsel, Mark Rosen, and CNA’s Strategy and Policy Analysis research program director, Nilanthi Samaranayake. Ambassador Koonjul read a prepared statement expressing Mauritius’ readiness to permit the US military to maintain its base on Diego Garcia if the Chagos archipelago returns to Mauritian administration. The speakers gave an overview of the current legal and diplomatic situation surrounding the Chagos archipelago and explored whether the US would or should maintain its current position in support of the United Kingdom. They also discussed the challenges and opportunities for future US cooperation with Mauritius in the Chagos archipelago.

US and Allied Basing Rights Diego Garcia: US and Allied Basing Rights in the Era of Great Power Competition On June 24, 2020, CNA’s Strategy and Policy Analysis program hosted an on-the-record ... featured Mauritius’ Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Jagdish Koonjul, CNA’s vice president and general counsel, Mark Rosen, and CNA’s Strategy and Policy Analysis research program ... Strategy and Policy Analysis program hosted a virtual, on-the-record event to discuss the current and future status of Diego Garcia, an island in the Indian Ocean’s Chagos Archipelago that hosts

Philippine Claims in South China Sea

/analyses/2014/philippine-claims-in-south-china-sea

This is the third of three legal analyses commissioned as part of a project entitled “U.S. Policy Options in the South China Sea.” Experienced U.S. international lawyers, such as Captain Mark Rosen, Judge Advocate General’s Corps, USN (ret.),1 the author of this analysis, were asked to test the various legal arguments that Vietnam, China, Malaysia, Brunei, and the Philippines make in support of their claims, weigh them against the body of international case law associated with maritime disputes of this sort, and, if possible, reach a judgment on which country’s claim is superior. Importantly, this analysis of Philippine claims to Scarborough Shoal and features in the Spratly archipelago was not undertaken as a prelude to a recommendation that the United States depart from its long-held position of not taking a position on competing sovereignty claims in the South China Sea. That is not the intent of the project; nor is it one of the recommendations.

Philippine Claims in South China Sea Philippine Claims in the South China Sea: A Legal Analysis This is the third of three legal analyses commissioned as part of a project entitled “U.S. Policy Options in the South China Sea.” Experienced U.S. international lawyers, such as Captain Mark Rosen, Judge Advocate General’s Corps, USN (ret.),1 the author of this analysis, were asked to test the various ... of this sort, and, if possible, reach a judgment on which country’s claim is superior. Importantly, this analysis of Philippine claims to Scarborough Shoal and features in the Spratly archipelago

A Brief History of CNA

/about-us/history

CNA is the oldest research and analysis organization in the United States that is an FFRDC, a federally funded research and development center. Our founder, Philip Morse, introduced the concept of operations research to the U.S. in order to address the German U-boat threat during World War II.

History CNA is the oldest research and analysis organization in the United States that is an FFRDC, a federally funded research and development center. Our founder, Philip Morse, introduced ... . Ernest King, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet, argued for continuing to fund the Navy’s independent analysis organization, renamed the Operations Evaluation Group, or OEG. “The complexity of modern warfare in both methods and means demands exacting analysis,” he explained. Digesting the lessons of the war was the first order of business. OEG published numerous reports on key naval operations

Samuel Bendett

/our-experts/bendett-samuel

Samuel Bendett is a CNA advisor focusing on Russian military technology and capabilities, drones, robotic and autonomous military systems, and AI.

situations. His previous experience includes working for the U.S. Congress, the private sector and nonprofit organizations on foreign policy, international conflict resolution, and defense and security ... , and a Russian military autonomy and artificial intelligence subject matter expert for the DOD’s Defense Systems Information Analysis Center. Bendett received a Master of Arts in law and diplomacy