Michael E. O'Hanlon

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Director of Research, Foreign Policy | Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence | The Sydney Stein, Jr. Chair

Sequestration and U.S. Defense Spending: Healing the Wounded Giant

Michael O'Hanlon is a senior fellow with the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence and director of research for the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution, where he specializes in U.S. defense strategy, the use of military force, and American foreign policy. He is a visiting lecturer at Princeton University, an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University, and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. O’Hanlon is a member of the External Advisory Board at the Central Intelligence Agency. His most recent book is Healing the Wounded Giant: Maintaining Military Preeminence while Cutting the Defense Budget (Brookings Institution Press 2013). | View Full Bio

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    Healing the Wounded Giant

    Maintaining Military Preeminence while Cutting the Defense Budget

    2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon

     

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202.797.4396 — Gail Chalef, Director of Communications, Foreign Policy

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Resources

Expertise

  • Arms treaties
  • Asian security issues
  • homeland security
  • Iraq policy
  • military technology
  • missile defense
  • North Korea policy
  • peacekeeping operations
  • Taiwan policy
  • military analysis
  • U.S. defense strategy and budget

Experience

Current Positions

  • Visiting Lecturer, Princeton University
  • Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Past Positions

  • Defense and Foreign Policy Analyst, National Security Division, Congressional Budget Office (1989-94)
  • Research Assistant, Institute for Defense Analyses
  • Peace Corps Volunteer, Congo

Education

  • Ph.D. (1991), M.A. (1988), M.S.E. (1987), A.B. (1982), Princeton University

Language Fluency

  • English
  • French

Past Events

In the News

"[There] weren't great hopes right now for peace talks [with the Taliban in Afghanistan] at the moment in any case."

Source: CNN

Featured Books

  • The Opportunity

    Next Steps in Reducing Nuclear Arms

    Steven Pifer and Michael E. O'Hanlon, October 12, 2012

  • Bending History

    Barack Obama's Foreign Policy

    Kenneth G. Lieberthal, Martin S. Indyk and Michael E. O'Hanlon, March 12, 2012

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