The Future of National Security: A Report on Workshops in Four Cities in 2000 with Annotations Updating Observations after 9/11/2001
Abstract
As part of the CNA Corporations's project on the future of national security, the project director, H. H. Gaffney, assisted by a consultant as facilitator, conducted a series of workshops on the subject in the year 2000. The workshops were conducted in New York (May; in collaboration with the Council on Foreign Relations and Larry Korb, Director of Studies), San Francisco (October; with the Northern California Council on World Affairs and Jane Wales, President), Chicago (also October; with the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations and John Rielly, President), and Atlanta (December; with the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Linda Brady, Chair). These discussions took place before the al Qaeda attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 and the subsequent U.S. retaliation in Afghanistan. We have not had the opportunity to return to each of these groups to see how their views may have been changed by these events. For the record, though, we will speculate throughout this report on the changes in U.S. national security that these groups might have recommended, based on the discussions. Our post-9/11 comments and speculations are in bold text throughout the document. We have also italicized some particularly prescient observations. The intent was to bring informed citizens together, to present them with a picture of the world, of current problems in U.S. forces, and of alternatives for the forces, and to let them express their views on each of these subjects. By design, few of the participants were defense experts.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 2002
- Accession Number
- ADA593362
Entities
People
- Dmitry Gorenburg
- H. H. Gaffney
Organizations
- CNA ANALYSIS AND SOLUTIONS ALEXANDRIA VA