“The United States does not lack strategy. It lacks the architecture to turn strategic thought into coherent strategic action.
- Center for the Application of Grand Strategy
Grand strategy belongs in the arena, not just the academy.
The gap between strategic theory and operational practice is one of the most consequential issues in U.S. national security. CAGS exists to close it — building the analytical architecture that turns strategic thinking into decisions that can actually be executed across the interagency and beyond.
Three tools. One coherent system.
The National Power Index establishes the data foundation. Strategic Simulation and Gaming stress-tests strategy against it. Strategic Education & Training develops the human capacity to act on what the analysis reveals. Together, they move decision-makers from data, to simulation, to confident strategic action.
Strategy is a team sport.
The problems CAGS addresses don't belong to any single institution or sector. We partner across government and the interagency, research institutions and universities, and the broader public and private sector — building a consortium where each community contributes what the others can't do alone.