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The Truman National Security Project is America’s only institute dedicated to educating progressive leaders in national security, and developing a new generation of national security leadership. Our mission is to provide the skills, knowledge, and network to create an influential force of leaders in key positions, who can effectively advance strong, principled, and progressive national security strategies.

The Truman National Security Project:

• Trains progressive candidates, Congressional staff, and elected officials in national security and defense issues, and effective communication;


• Recruits and develops a powerful national network of progressive leaders who understand today’s national security challenges and have the political and media skills to effectively communicate solutions;


• Develops strategies to address tough new security challenges.

The national network of leaders the Truman Project has trained are running for elected office; staffing Presidential and Congressional campaigns; serving in the U.S. military; preparing legislation as Congressional staff, appearing in the media; and working across the country on the front-lines of new security challenges, from local law enforcement to public health agencies, humanitarian organizations, and crucial appointed offices.

The world is changing rapidly. Alongside traditional security challenges, today’s leaders must face new cyber-threats, asymmetric insurgencies, global climate change, terrorists, and failed state. The security strategies that worked during the Cold War are no longer suited to today.

We need a new generation of leaders who understand the threats and opportunities of the 21^st century, and can effectively communicate a new national security strategy to the American people. We need leaders who understand our nation’s military, even as they forge new relationships between our military, economic, diplomatic, and development tools. Leaders who believe strong progressive values and strong national security are two sides of the same coin.

Developing this leadership force is the role of the Truman Project.