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International Security and Foreign Affairs Hudson Institute is a comprehensive and future-oriented policy research organization that, for fifty years, has analyzed defense and foreign policy events and trends. Hudson’s international policy scholars, many of whom have served in high-level government posts, combine strong regional competencies—in Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America, as well as Central, East, and South Asia—with knowledge of U.S. and foreign military capabilities and strategic aims. Hudson research in global affairs is conducted in five main areas: promoting American national security; defeating the threat of radical Islam; facing a rising Asia; advancing U.S. interests in North and South America; and building vibrant civil societies and democracies across the globe. Promoting American National Security America’s military forces are the world’s most technologically advanced and powerful, both because of our wealth and innovation and because of the diverse and competing requirements of U.S. national security. Hudson global affairs scholars analyze a broad but integrated range of issues central to U.S. national security, including national security strategy, defense policy and technology, maritime security and the future of the U.S. Navy, countering hostile ideologies and terrorism, nuclear proliferation and cyber threats, and intelligence law and policy. Security Strategies Strong American national security requires an integrated and cross-disciplinary understanding of grand strategy. Hudson Institute’s national security experts study the manifold threats faced by the United States, its allies, and its interests; offers forwardlooking analyses of ever-changing global security landscapes; provides realistic knowledge of U.S. capabilities, ranging from counterterrorism to high-tech warfare; and develops comprehensive and effective strategies that seek to minimize threats, leverage existing capabilities and alliances, and promote U.S. values and interests. Hudson scholars analyze these threats— from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran, to the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and beyond—and seek to provide a solid footing for national security 1
strategies to counter them and maintain U.S. global leadership. The Institute’s team includes former senior-level officials, including Senior Vice President Lewis Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Richard Cheney; Senior Fellow Douglas Feith, the former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy; former Pentagon officials including, Seth Cropsey, the former Deputy Undersecretary of the Navy, Jack David, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Abram Shulsky, and Richard Weitz; and former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control Christopher Ford. President and CEO Kenneth Weinstein focuses on alliance relations with Europe and Asia. Defense Policy and Technology Maintaining the American military advantage requires tapping the technological prowess of the U.S. economy, and, where necessary, the capabilities of our allies. The key to ensuring that the Defense Department can benefit from technological advances is preserving a defense-industrial base that is vibrant and technologically superior; this is possible only through competition. Competition in the defense-industrial arena has recently been impeded by a number of developments. Most notable has been the consolidation of the defense-industrial base into fewer contractors, and the reduced number of major defense programs for which they can compete. A top-down, bureaucratic procurement process does not encourage competition and will thwart efforts to ensure that our weapons systems remain at the technological cutting edge. Hudson Institute Senior Fellows—Douglas Feith, former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Abram Shulsky, former Pentagon analyst, Seth Cropsey, former Deputy Undersecretary of the Navy, and Christopher Ford, former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control—analyze the political and institutional factors potentially imperiling future advances in the defense industry. Maritime Security and Strategy U.S. naval power was critical to assuring the rise of the United States as a global power. Increasing ship costs, the likelihood of decreasing naval budgets as land action against jihadists continues, and the Navy’s own declared strategy of emphasizing humanitarian assistance and disaster relief all suggest that the United States will experience increasing difficulty executing the traditional missions of a great maritime power. Led by Seth Cropsey, a Hudson Senior Fellow and former Deputy Undersecretary of the Navy, Hudson Institute’s maritime policy research focuses attention on the implications of a shrinking U.S. Navy threatened by future budget cuts, a growing Chinese navy, and an increasingly tense world, exploring the likely effect of these changes on the United States’ position as a great power. 2
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