Ep 110: Thomas Mahnken on Net Assessment

School of War · Feb 13, 2024 · 46m

Thomas Mahnken, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, joins the show to talk about net assessment and the future of war.

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Times

• 01:39 Introduction

• 02:02 An interesting journey

• 03:33 The Office of Net Assessment

• 09:49 A tool, not a solution

• 13:19 Both quantity and quality matter

• 15:05 Soviet thinking

• 19:20 Leveraging insight

• 23:11 Potential outcomes

• 28:35 “The Houthis have friends.”

• 33:19 Danger and opportunity

• 37:20 The terms of success change

• 43:14 Solving the problem of the moment

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