The Office of Net Assessment isn’t your typical working group within the Department of Defense leviathan. First of all, it runs on “budget dust” (listen to the show and you’ll understand). Second, it’s charged with considering scenarios and making recommendations about things that the people at the top don’t want to hear. For decades it was run by Andrew Marshall with innovation and wry humor. Marshall’s biographer, Andrew Krepinevich, introduces us to the man and the office—and the reason current Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is looking to lobotomize this brain trust.
The Office of Net Assessment
DoD “budget dust”
Saving the B1 Bomber
How to join the Office of Net Assessment
The song of Andrew Marshall
Throwing around words like manhole covers
Burning through our Cold War winnings
The Pentagon’s Endangered Brain Trust
The Last Warrior: Andrew Marshall and the Shaping of Modern American Defense Strategy
