Defense Showstoppers: National Security Challenges for the Obama Administration

Brother, do you have a DIME? (Interagency)

(Or, how to improve relations among U.S. agencies responsible for marshalling the four elements of national power – Diplomatic, Information, Military, and Economic?)

February 12, 2009

This panel featured Janine Davidson, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University; Ralph Peters, author; and the Hon. Thomas A. Schweich, Visiting Professor of Law and Ambassador in Residence, Washington University in St. Louis. Frank Hoffman, Research Fellow at the Center for Emerging Threats and Opportunities, Marine Corps Combat Development Command, and Senior Fellow of FPRI, moderated.

This panel was part of the “Defense Showstoppers” conference sponsored by FPRI’s Program on National Security and the Reserve Officers Association. FPRI thanks its trustees W. W. Keen Butcher, Bruce H. Hooper, John M. Templeton, Jr. for funding the Program on National Security.

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