Is the National Defense Strategy actually a strategy? In this podcast, Melanie Marlowe, and Zack Cooper, and the Stimson Center’s Christopher Preble debate the Biden administration’s recently released National Defense Strategy. Do integrated deterrence, campaign, and enduring advantage add up to more than the sum of their parts? Does the unclassified version of the National Defense Strategy make any hard choices to connect ends and means?
Listen to the full episode at War on the Rocks.
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Is the National Defense Strategy actually a strategy? In this podcast, Melanie Marlowe, and Zack Cooper, and the Stimson Center’s Christopher Preble debate the Biden administration’s recently released National Defense Strategy. Do integrated deterrence, campaign, and enduring advantage add up to more than the sum of their parts? Does the unclassified version of the National Defense Strategy make any hard choices to connect ends and means?
Listen to the full episode at War on the Rocks.
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