Defense Strategy & Policy

The Defense Challenge

The United States currently faces challenges to its military advantage across all domains – air, land, sea, space, and cyberspace. Strategic competition is not limited solely to its military element, but understanding the defense angle is necessary to understand and effectively respond to the challenges our adversaries pose. Over the course of the seminar, fellows will gain an understanding of not only military strategy and warfare, but also the formation and implementation of defense policy. They will study the intricacies of the relationships between the government, the private sector, and the military and the ways in which policymakers can improve our national defense.

Program details

Each seminar will meet on the same designated day of the week from 6:00pm-8:30pm. Fellows will be responsible for around 50 pages of reading for each session and will be required to write two short essays over the course of the program. All four tracks will convene together for the first and last sessions. Over the course of the program, fellows will also have the opportunity to take part in a crisis simulation, to attend the annual Writing Workshop Conference, and to be published in the SSS journal, Security and Strategy.