作者: Michael E. O. Hanlon

What happens if we bet too heavily on unmanned systems, cyber warfare, and special operations in our defense?In today’s U.S. defense policy debates, big land wars are out. Drones, cyber weapons, …

Voters say they want to hear more from candidates about the critical issues facing our nation and less about partisan politics. Opportunity 08 answers the call with authoritative analysis and …

These are extraordinary times in U.S. national security policy. America remains engaged in both Iraq and Afghanistan while facing a global economic downturn. Homeland security concerns still abound …

Crafting a new policy toward Iran is a complicated, uncertain, and perilous challenge. Since it is an extremely complex society, with an opaque political system, it is no wonder that the United …

"Michael O’Hanlon and Hassina Sherjan have written a superb analysis of the current strategy in Afghanistan. It is an insightful work by two authors with exceptional knowledge and experience. It …

In 2007 two former U.S. secretaries of state, a defense secretary, and a former senator wrote persuasively in the Wall Street Journal that the time had come to move seriously toward a nuclear-free …

This latest study in the Brookings series on U.S. defense strategy and the defense budget reviews current American military capabilities and offers suggestions for the new administration and …

By the time of Barack Obama’s inauguration as the 44th president of the United States, he had already developed an ambitious foreign policy vision. By his own account, he sought to bend the arc of …

For some observers, nuclear arms control is either a relic of the cold war, or a utopian dream about a denuclearized planet decades in the future. But, as Brookings scholars Steven Pifer and Michael …

President Barack Obama survived a tenuous economy and a toxic political environment to win re-election in 2012, but the bitter partisan divide in Washington survived as well. So did the country’s …

What happens if we bet too heavily on unmanned systems, cyber warfare, and special operations in our defense?In today’s U.S. defense policy debates, big land wars are out. Drones, cyber weapons, …

U.S. defense spending isnt excessive and, in fact, should continue to grow because its both affordable and necessary in today’s challenging world.The United States spends a lot of money on …

"How to stabilize the security relationship between Washington and Beijing.The U.S.-China relationship has not always been smooth, but since Richard Nixon’s opening in the early 1970s, the two …

"An Agenda for the Nation What are the biggest issues facing the country as Donald Trump and the GOP-led 115th Congress take office?Any new administration faces a myriad of issues and problems …

In this new Brookings Marshall Paper, Michael O’Hanlon argues that now is the time for Western nations to negotiate a new security architecture for neutral countries in eastern Europe to stabilize …

America needs better options for resolving potential crises In recent years, the Pentagon has elevated its concerns about Russia and China as potential military threats to the United States and its …

A good deal has been done to improve the safety of Americans on their own soil since the attacks of September 11, 2001. Yet there have been numerous setbacks. The Bush administration and Congress …

Immediately after September 11, the Brookings Institution began a comprehensive, multidisciplinary project focused on the key policy challenge of these dangerous timesassessing and improving homeland …

American voters say they want to hear more about the issues and less about partisan politics. An unusually wide-open presidential race presents a unique opening for frank discussion and innovative …

Space has been militarized for over four decades. Should it now be weaponized? This incisive and insightful book argues that it should not. Since the cold war, space has come to harbor many tools of …

Arms control, for decades at the core of the foreign policy consensus, today is among the more contentious issues in American politics. It is pilloried and considered out of mode in many conservative …

The Brookings Institution has long produced an analysis of America’s defense budgets and policies. The war on terror and the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have forced upon this country …

After eleven weeks of bombing in the spring of 1999, the United States and NATO ultimately won the war in Kosovo. Serbian troops were forced to withdraw, enabling an international military and …

Arms control and missile defense are once again at the forefront of the American national security agenda. Not surprisingly, the debate has broken down along well-worn lines. Arms control advocates …

An essential introduction to modern defense policy The U.S. military is one of the largest and most complex organizations in the world. How it spends its money, chooses tactics, and allocates its res …

How the United States and China can avoid future conflict and establish stable cooperative relations After forty years of largely cooperative Sino-U.S. relations, policymakers, politicians, and pundi …

‘Nobody approaches the objectivity and precision of Bush and O’Hanlon when it comes to analysis of the military and political dimensions of the Taiwan issue. This is one challenge that U.S. …

In Defense 101 , a concise primer for understanding the United States’ $700+ billion defense budget and rapidly changing military technologies, Michael O’Hanlon provides a deeply informed yet accessi …

In Defense 101, a concise primer for understanding the United States’ $700+ billion defense budget and rapidly changing military technologies, Michael O’Hanlon provides a deeply informed yet …

Spending on U.S. foreign affairs, which constitutes only about one percent of the federal budget, is being sharply reduced. Under the President’s 1996 budget plan, it will decline by just as great a …

Two important events in 1997–the balanced-budget deal and the completion of the Pentagon’s Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR)–promise to shape U.S. military policy for the next several years. …

Military analyst Michael O’Hanlon shows how outside forces could successfully intervene to stop an ongoing cycle of warfare in a country whose government has collapsed or come under severe internal …