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Nathan Freier

Associate Professor, Army War College

Nathan Freier
Nathan Freier is Associate Professor of National Security Studies and researcher at the U.S. Army War College. He is a co-director of a multi-year research effort on INDOPACOM theater design. Nate is a contributing author of the forthcoming Army War College report “An Army Transformed—INDOPACOM Hypercompetition and U.S. Army Theater Design” and a co-author of the recent Parameters, Summer Edition article Geo-Strategic Net Assessment: INDOPACOM Through 2030.
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The US Is Out of Position in the Indo-Pacific Region

A truly joint approach is needed, and the Army has several particular roles to play.

  • Nathan Freier, John Schaus, Al Lord, Alison Goldsmith and Col. Elizabeth Martin
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In the Pacific, US Army Must Be a Running Back Who Blocks

Joint success in the world’s largest theater requires the service to accept supporting roles, an Army War College study finds.

  • John Schaus, Nathan Freier, Michael Cable and Dana Tucker
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The Weaponization of Everything

So far, the U.S. has mustered no response to China’s and Russia’s widening assault on America’s global stature.

  • Nathan Freier and Jonathan Dagle
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Faster, Transient, Endless: How America Must Adapt to Today's Great-Power Competition

Three years of Army War College research have revealed the surprising contours of post-primacy security — and the single animating principle that must guide U.S. strategy.

  • Nathan Freier
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How to Adapt Military Risk to an Era of Hypercompetition

DOD needs to change how the defense enterprise describes, identifies, and assesses risk in an age of persistent disruption.

  • Nathan Freier
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Gray Zone: Why We’re Losing the New Era of National Security

If the U.S.-led status quo is not be to further eroded, the White House and Pentagon must jumpstart efforts to recognize and counter hybrid techniques.

  • Nathan Freier, Christopher Compton and Tobin Magsig
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How the Iraq War Crippled U.S. Military Power

Iraq was ‘the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time’ and its costs are having a devastating effect on defense policy and national security decision making. By Nathan Freier

  • Nathan Freier