Robert Almelor Delfeld Archives

May 7, 2024

Broadening the Defense Industrial Base with Marathon’s Robert Delfeld

American Compass | On this episode, Oren is joined by the Marathon Initiative’s Robert Delfeld to discuss how to broaden and strengthen the defense industrial base. They dig into the history and politics of the defense industry, the effects of deindustrialization on the supply chain, and a blueprint for supporting the defense industrial “sub-base. ........
May 1, 2024

The Next Washington Consensus: The Security State and Its Rivals

American Affairs | Project states” have been directed at various sociopolitical missions in the past (the new War on Carbon is best seen as a successor to the War on Drugs and the War on Poverty),......
April 26, 2024

The U.S. Munitions Deficit Is a Political Problem

Foreign Policy | The best way to understand this lack of progress is as a form of collective action problem. Given the U.S. federal system’s grounding in a separation of powers..........
April 1, 2024

Broadening the Base: A Blueprint for Expanding Defense Industrial Capacity

The Marathon Initiative | The reform package best adapted to generate the broadest possible corporate and state-based coalition is by focusing on strengthening what this report designates as the defense industrial “sub-base” (DISB).…......
September 14, 2023

Delfeld: The Military Strategy of ‘Deterrence by Denial,’ Rightly Understood

National Review | Strictly speaking, a strategy of deterrence by denial is about preventing a war in the Pacific, particularly over Taiwan, by first achieving a favorable balance of allied military power that will enable conditions for détente.......
November 1, 2022

Sharing the Load: Developing Better Strategies for Burden Sharing

The Marathon Initiative | The purpose of this study is to provide a strategic framework which the United States can use to lead to better burden sharing outcomes, in turn driving greater and more aligned efforts by Washington’s allies and partners.…......