One-Sided COIN: the Military-Industrial Complex Surges Washington (Beltway) (Center for a New American Security) (Counterinsurgency‪)‬

YOU KNOW IT'S NOT going to be a typical Washington think-tank event when, upon entering the gilded doors of the Willard InterContinental Hotel, you are greeted by a peppy female soldier in an Army service uniform bedecked with medals. "Welcome, are you here for CNAS?" For the Center for a New American Security, the June 11 annual meeting was about doing things big--broadcasting to the swelling Washington national-security establishment that CNAS is a major player; that there is but a sliver of daylight between its civilian-policy mission and that of the U.S. military. Both are working symbiotically to make their vision the only remedy for the young Obama administration's foreign-policy challenges.