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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    •      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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