Nathan Freier

Stories by Nathan Freier

U.S. Must Plan For, Pay For Strategic Unknowns — Even Now

Before designing and articulating a new defense strategy, DoD officials must answer an important question: Will the most dangerous twenty-first century threats emerge more from unfavorable order or unacceptable disorder? Unfavorable order is rooted in military competition with rising powers like China or Iran and conforms well to emerging concepts like Air-Sea Battle. Unacceptable disorder…

Don’t Rush to Gut Ground Forces

A perfect storm is brewing over Washington as the four services face what they view as the existential threat of a change in their share of the defense budget. U.S. fiscal woes, profoundly exhausting land wars in the Middle East and South Asia, and a rising China are all combining to push American defense officials…