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Defense and National Security Program

The Council on Foreign Relations’ Defense and National Security program analyzes the world’s rapidly changing defense environment. It focuses on U.S. defense strategy, the future of war, the defense industrial base, emerging capabilities, and technologies such as artificial intelligence and cyber. The program and affiliated fellows enhance the public debate through books, articles, op-eds, interviews, congressional testimony, roundtables, and briefings.

Program Experts

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Michael C. Horowitz

Senior Fellow for Technology and Innovation and Director of the Defense and National Security Program

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Erin D. Dumbacher

Stanton Nuclear Security Senior Fellow and Director of the Defense and National Security Program

Jim Baker

Jim Baker

Senior Fellow for Strategic Competition

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Max Boot

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies

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Rush Doshi

C.V. Starr Senior Fellow for Asia Studies and Director of the China Strategy Initiative

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Bruce Hoffman

Shelby Cullom and Kathryn W. Davis Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security

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James M. Lindsay

Mary and David Boies Distinguished Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy

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Rebecca Lissner

Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy and Director of the Future of American Strategy Initiative

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Stuart Reid

Stephen A. Schwarzman Senior Fellow for Asia Studies and Associate Vice President of Studies

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Adam Segal

Ira A. Lipman Chair in Emerging Technologies and National Security and Director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program

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