Kathleen Hicks, Defense One

Kathleen Hicks

Defense One

Washington, DC, United States

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Kathleen Hicks

Defense One provides news, analysis, and ideas about the future of national security to defense and industry leaders, innovative decision-makers, and informed citizens. → Read More

We Need Joe Biden

Donald Trump has failed. Our national cohesion and security can’t wait another five years. → Read More

Counting Dollars or Measuring Value

Download the Report In recent years, discussion about transatlantic security spending has increasingly focused on whether NATO members are spending 2 percent of their gross domestic product (GDP) on defense, the benchmark mandated at the 2014 Wales Summit. Only four member states currently meet the 2 percent threshold that they are expected to reach by 2024, prompting criticism that members who… → Read More

U.S. Forces in Korea

President Trump appears to have restrained his impulse to withdraw U.S. forces from South Korea at this week’s Summit. That was wise. As negotiations proceed, a unilateral drawdown of American military personnel should continue to be off the table. It would degrade our negotiating position on the peninsula, harm our ability to protect Americans and secure our economy, and reduce our advantages… → Read More

Alice Hunt Friend

Alice Hunt Friend is a senior fellow in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where she ... → Read More

The State of Military Readiness: Is There a Crisis?

Amid a recent Military Times investigation detailing a surge in military aviation accidents over the past five fiscal years—including six crashes in just the last three weeks that killed 16 pilots and crew and four surface fleet incidents between FY 2017 and FY 2018 that killed 17 sailors—calls for a solution to the military’s “readiness crisis” continue to be heard despite recent budget… → Read More

Defense Outlook 2018

Download the Report This volume presents CSIS experts’ assessment of the Trump administration’s strategy documents and FY 2019 budgets for defense. → Read More

Michael Matlaga

Michael Matlaga is a research assistant with the International Security Program at CSIS. → Read More

Andrew Linder

Andrew Linder is an intern in the International Security Program at CSIS. → Read More

NATO Needs to Step Up its Maritime Defenses

Here are a few steps the alliance should pursue at its upcoming summit in Brussels. → Read More

NATO Needs to Step Up its Maritime Defenses

NATO Needs to Step Up its Maritime Defenses By Kathleen Hicks, Michael Matlaga, and Andrew Linder April 11, 2018 Just one day after President Trump told the presidents of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia that he was “proud to reaffirm America’s commitment” to the sovereignty of the three Baltic nations, Russia underscored the proximity of its military might to these U.S. allies with live-fire… → Read More

NATO Needs to Step Up its Maritime Defenses

NATO Needs to Step Up its Maritime Defenses By Kathleen Hicks, Michael Matlaga, and Andrew Linder April 11, 2018 Just one day after President Trump told the presidents of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia that he was “proud to reaffirm America’s commitment” to the sovereignty of the three Baltic nations, Russia underscored the proximity of its military might to these U.S. allies with live-fire… → Read More

Contested Seas | Center for Strategic and International Studies

Download the Report Executive Summary Northern Europe, and specifically the Baltic and Norwegian Seas, has been the site of increasingly provocative and destabilizing Russian actions. The country’s use of a range of military, diplomatic, and economic tools to undermine the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and its allies highlights the need to monitor and understand Russian activity. The… → Read More

Deterring Iran after the Nuclear Deal

Despite a U.S. focus on securing an international deal to curb Iran’s nuclear development for the last several years, the United States lacks a strategy to combat the full range of Iranian activities that threaten the interests of the United States and its allies but fall short of conventional warfare. In this report, CSIS’s International Security Program sets forth analysis of Iran’s strategy,… → Read More

Trump Gave the Military More Power, But Here’s What Really Concerns Us

Trump Gave the Military More Power, But Here’s What Really Concerns Us By Alice Hunt Friend and Kathleen Hicks 10:35 AM ET The recent revelation that President Donald Trump has delegated decisions over troop levels in Afghanistan to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is the latest in a series of actions causing concern that this administration has “outsourced” foreign policy to the military. Today's… → Read More

Alice Hunt Friend

Alice Hunt Friend is a senior fellow in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where she ... → Read More

Trump Gave the Military More Power, But Here’s What Really Concerns Us

A recent major conference on the civ-mil divide revealed a more nuanced picture of America and its armed forces. → Read More

Trump Gave the Military More Power, But Here’s What Really Concerns Us

A recent major conference on the civ-mil divide revealed a more nuanced picture of America and its armed forces. → Read More

Defense Strategy and the Iron Triangle of Painful Trade-offs

The Department of Defense (DoD) has begun its development of a new defense strategy, and outside observers are atwitter, or should I say, aTwitter. Having been involved in more security strategy efforts than is healthy for any human, I have empathy for those charged with strategy development in today’s chaotic Washington environment. When it comes to strategy development, it can often feel that,… → Read More

Turkey Is Not an Easy Ally, But It’s Not Time to Write it Off

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey is no stranger to the Oval Office. Donald Trump will be the third U.S. president he has met there. Suffice it to say, none of these conversations has been easy given the friction between these two NATO allies, beginning with the run-up to the 2003 Iraq War through to the current conflict in Syria. → Read More