Col. Mark Cancian, USMC Ret., senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Thomas Mahnken, PhD, president of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, discuss CSIS’ new “Coping With Surprise in Great Power Conflicts” report and how the Pentagon can better react to the unexpected — whether it arises internally or on the battlefield– during a Feb. 20, 2018, interview at the think tank’s Washington headquarters. Learn more about the CSIS report here.
