DARC is for the many current and former thinktankers who are straightjacketed by the stifling bureaucracy and deep risk aversion endemic among the defense and foreign policy incumbents, from RAND and CSIS to CFR and Brookings.
We feel that this state of affairs is an unforced error of gigantic proportions.
In this critical time, the United States must ensure that the dynamism of its strategic thinking keeps up with the pace of global change. We must foster a new generation of defense intellectuals that follow in the best traditions of Andy Marshall, Herman Kahn, and Edward Luttwak.
Instead, a sclerotic establishment continues to pile on its limp, dithering statecraft in the pages of rags like Foreign Affairs: saying nothing, proposing nothing, and committing to nothing.
DARC seeks to create a coalition of those unwilling to wait for the retirement party and hearse to bring about change. We believe there would be much progress in defense thinking if analysts simply did not fear the career impact of saying what needed to be said.
To that end, DARC has since its inception published an ongoing series of articles and working papers authored by its Senior Fellows. These papers are published largely pseudonymously, allowing for a candid expression of real views.
In the past, we have covered matters as varying as:
- The need to revive letters of marque as a solution to modern security issues
- The bull case for US action to territorialize Cuba
- A proposal to cripple China’s AI progress through mass data poisoning
- The latent opportunities in weaponizing US control over global energy supply
If you would like to publish work through this program and become a DARC Senior Fellow, please reach out via DM @DefenseAnalyses or by email at contact@defenseanalyses.org.
