Editor’s Note: Access to U.S. intelligence is high on the list of what allies want and need. Department of Defense procedures allow for intelligence sharing, but as RAND’s Andrew Radin argues, the procedures are complex, confusing, and often overly restrictive.
Daniel Byman
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Allies and partners play a pivotal role in the Department of Defense’s recently released National Defense Strategy (NDS). The strategy is a “call to action…to incorporate Allies and partners at every stage of defense planning.” According to the strategy, “Alliances and partnerships are our greatest global strategic advantage” and a core element of how the United States hopes to compete with both Russia and China simultaneously. But for this cooperation to work—especially the combined planning, operations, and investments called for in the strategy—allies may require access to details of U.S. military plan
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