Thomas Mahnken, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, joins the show to talk about net assessment and the future of war.▪️ Times     •      01:39 Introduction     •      02:02 An interesting journey    •      03:33 The Office of Net Assessment     •      09:49 A tool, not a solution     •      13:19 Both quantity and quality matter     •      15:05 Soviet thinking     •      19:20 Leveraging insight     •      23:11 Potential outcomes    •      28:35 “The Houthis have friends.”      •      33:19 Danger and opportunity     •      37:20 The terms of success change    •      43:14 Solving the problem of the momentFollow along  on InstagramFind a transcript of today’s episode on our School of War Substack