Nathan Freier
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Minnesota, United States
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The US Is Out of Position in the Indo-Pacific Region
A truly joint approach is needed, and the Army has several particular roles to play. → Read More
In the Pacific, US Army Must Be a Running Back Who Blocks
Joint success in the world’s largest theater requires the service to accept supporting roles, an Army War College study finds. → Read More
Jonathan Dagle
Jonathan Dagle is principal strategist and owner of JD Solutions, which advises nonprofits on organizational strategy. He has advised three Army War College study efforts and served as a strategist at U.S. Air Force headquarters and National Guard Bureau. → Read More
The Weaponization of Everything
So far, the U.S. has mustered no response to China’s and Russia’s widening assault on America’s global stature. → Read More
Christopher Compton
Christopher Compton, a senior active duty Army officer, is a contributing author on the U.S. Army War College team that wrote “Outplayed: Regaining Strategic Initiative in the Gray Zone,” a 2016 report sponsored by the Army and Joint Staff. → Read More
Tobin Magsig
Tobin Magsig, a senior active duty Army officer, is a contributing author on the U.S. Army War College team that wrote “Outplayed: Regaining Strategic Initiative in the Gray Zone,” a 2016 report sponsored by the Army and Joint Staff. → Read More
Nathan Freier
Nathan Freier is an Associate Professor of National Security Studies at the U.S. Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute. → Read More
Faster, Transient, Endless: How America Must Adapt to Today's Great-Power Competition
Three years of Army War College research have revealed the surprising contours of post-primacy security — and the single animating principle that must guide U.S. strategy. → Read More
Faster, Transient, Endless: How America Must Adapt to Today’s Great-Power Competition
Faster, Transient, Endless: How America Must Adapt to Today’s Great-Power Competition By Nathan Freier 12:52 PM ET The United States is in a dangerous hypercompetitive struggle for advantage with two capable great-power rivals. Virtually every rule or assumption according to which U.S. decisionmakers developed post-Cold War strategy has been undermined, expropriated, or rewritten in Beijing and… → Read More
How to Adapt Military Risk to an Era of Hypercompetition
DOD needs to change how the defense enterprise describes, identifies, and assesses risk in an age of persistent disruption. → Read More
How to Adapt Military Risk to an Era of Hypercompetition
DOD needs to change how the defense enterprise describes, identifies, and assesses risk in an age of persistent disruption. → Read More
How to Adapt Military Risk to an Era of Hypercompetition
How to Adapt Military Risk to an Era of Hypercompetition By Nathan Freier June 29, 2017 The United States and its defense establishment are stumbling through a period of hypercompetition. The current era is defined by furious battles for positional advantage at multiple extra-national, transnational, national, and sub-national levels. And, it occurs across physical, political, economic, virtual,… → Read More
Nathan Freier
Nathan Freier, a researcher at the U.S. Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute, was the project director for the Army War College team that produced “Outplayed: Regaining Strategic Initiative in the Gray Zone,” a 2016 report sponsored by the Army and Joint Staff. → Read More
Gray Zone: Why We’re Losing the New Era of National Security
If the U.S.-led status quo is not be to further eroded, the White House and Pentagon must jumpstart efforts to recognize and counter hybrid techniques. → Read More
Gray Zone: Why We’re Losing the New Era of National Security
If the U.S.-led status quo is not be to further eroded, the White House and Pentagon must jumpstart efforts to recognize and counter hybrid techniques. → Read More
How the Iraq War Crippled U.S. Military Power
Iraq was ‘the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time’ and its costs are having a devastating effect on defense policy and national security decision making. By Nathan Freier → Read More