The Reimagining US Grand Strategy Program strengthens U.S. foreign policy by testing assumptions, reassessing conventional wisdom, and exploring innovative approaches to international engagement.
Given the historic nature of the challenges facing U.S. policymakers in a rapidly changing world, we believe that the voices influencing policy decisions are often too narrow, and that unconventional thinking is urgently required. The program fills an important gap in the national discourse on the United States’ global role by injecting fresh thinking and unorthodox ideas.
Through original research, public and private events, and media appearances, we are transforming the national security debate, among both policy experts and the broader public.

China’s use of Military Operations Other Than War (MOOTW) is essential to understanding how Beijing views the utility of military force in the 21st century.
October 3, 2022

Chris Preble joins the Net Assessment podcast to discuss military lessons from the war in Ukraine and debate Russian ineffectiveness
September 29, 2022

The success of Ukraine’s air denial strategy stems not from Russian shortcomings but a more fundamental and systemic shift from offense to defense dominance.
September 21, 2022

September 16, 2022

Chris Preble joined the Net Assessment podcast to discuss how to build a new American defense industrial policy and what should be in the 'toolkit'
September 15, 2022

The war in Ukraine thus suggests that some realist theories are not as helpful as they could be during a time of global geopolitical upheaval
September 13, 2022

Chris Preble joins the Net Assessment podcast to scrutinize a Lawfare article on Gen. Mark Milley’s behavior at the end of the Trump administration
September 9, 2022

Though the impulse to hold tight to the air superiority paradigm may be strong, the future of air warfare is denial.
September 8, 2022