The United States faces a myriad of challenges, ranging from an antiquated defense contracting process to the inability to build and procure new military platforms quickly and efficiently. For the past three decades, American power went largely unchallenged.

The rise of China, coupled with the return of revanchist Russia, requires new thinking about the future of American and global security. The United States has serious shortcomings, linked to deindustrialization after the Cold War and assumptions about US military supremacy, that require urgent thinking to address. 

The Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)’s new project, Behind the Front, will analyze current and future national security challenges with a focus on:

• the Defense Industrial Base

• military procurement

• lessons learned from ongoing conflicts

• challenges and opportunities in the technology and space sector

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