Mac Thornberry

Oct 31, 2024 | realcleardefense.com | Mac Thornberry

Dangers That Will Not Go Away and What To Do About Them

Oct 30, 2024 | realcleardefense.com | Mac Thornberry

The report of the bipartisan Commission on the National Defense Strategy found that “[t]he threats the United States faces are the most serious and most challenging the nation has encountered since 1945 and include the potential for near-term major war.”  Yet, we rarely, if ever, hear mention of these threats from those on the campaign trail, much less how they would deal with them.

Jul 29, 2024 | rand.org | Jane Harman |Eric Edelman |Mac Thornberry |Andrew Hoehn

Event Details Date:Sep 26, 2024Time:3:00–4:30 p.m. ETLocation: RAND's Washington D.C. office and online Register Please register to attend this even: Virtual attendees will receive connection details by email. In its final report to Congress, the bipartisan Commission on the National Defense Strategy describes the most serious threats to U.S. national security since World War II.

Dec 20, 2023 | hoover.org | Mac Thornberry

This essay is adapted from Defense Budgeting for a Safer World: The Experts Speak, a new publication by the Hoover Institution Press. The Pentagon excels at producing strategy documents, reports, studies, and policy papers. They are just words on paper (or the monitor) without the funding to make them a reality. When and how the money is spent, and what the money is spent on, provide a more accurate reading of the United States’ national security strategy.

Mar 8, 2023 | breakingdefense.com | Mac Thornberry

Mac Thornberry spent 26 years as a member of the House of Representatives, including four years as chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. In the following op-ed, Thornberry lays out what he thinks are four key points American leaders need to acknowledge if the country is to stay dominant on the world stage. “The more things change, the more they stay the same,” wrote the French journalist and novelist Jean-Baptiste Karr more than a century and a half ago.