Strategic Rethink: America's Security Deficit

The RAND Strategic Rethink Project

The RAND Strategic Rethink project explores important strategic questions facing the United States, producing a guide for policymakers, citizens, educators, and the media on the most critical global choices and challenges facing the country.

U.S. Needs to Either Boost Defense Funding or Limit Military Commitments

Limitations on defense spending in the context of emerging threats are creating a U.S. “security deficit.” How might policymakers adjust to bring resources into better alignment with strategic demands?

David A. Ochmanek, Andrew R. Hoehn @AndyHoehn, et al.

Addressing the Imbalance Between Strategy and Resources in a Turbulent World

Deterrence is infinitely preferable to war. But the United States now risks relying more on its reputation from past wars for deterrence than on actual military capabilities that can be brought to bear when and where needed.

David A. Ochmanek, Andrew R. Hoehn @AndyHoehn, et al.