Andrew R. Hoehn

@AndyHoehn on Twitter

Senior Vice President, Research and Analysis

Washington Office

Education

M.A. in public and international affairs, University of Pittsburgh; B.A. in political science, Baldwin-Wallace College

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Overview

Andrew Hoehn is senior vice president for Research and Analysis at the RAND Corporation. He is responsible for all U.S.-based research and analysis, quality assurance, and recruitment and oversight of RAND's 1500 research staff. He previously served as RAND vice president and director of Project AIR FORCE (PAF), where he oversaw research and analyses on strategy, force employment, personnel and training, and resource management. He first joined RAND as director of PAF's Strategy and Doctrine program. Previously, Hoehn was the deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy, where he was responsible for developing and implementing U.S. defense strategy, force planning and assessments, and long-range policy planning. Earlier, as principal director for strategy and director for requirements in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, he was responsible for policy oversight of resource planning, materiel requirements, and military roles and missions. Prior to joining government, Hoehn was associate editor of the Marine Corps Gazette. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the board of visitors at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. He earned an M.A. in public and international affairs from the University of Pittsburgh, and a B.A. in political science from Baldwin-Wallace College.

Research Focus

Previous Positions

Vice President and Director, Project AIR FORCE (PAF); Director, Strategy and Doctrine Program, PAF; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy

Recent Projects

Strategic Rethink: a series of volumes in which RAND explores the elements of a national strategy for the conduct of U.S. foreign policy in a fast-changing world
Setting aggregate demand for military capabilities

Selected Publications

Ochmanek, David A., Andrew R. Hoehn, James T. Quinlivan, Seth G. Jones, and Edward L. Warner, America's Security Deficit: Addressing the Imbalance Between Strategy and Resources in a Turbulent World: Strategic Rethink, RAND Corporation (RR-1223), 2015

Recent Media Appearances

Interviews: The Bulwark; Burn Bag; Defense News TV; Jane's Defense; Los Angeles Times; National Public Radio; New Books Network; New York Times; RealClearPolitics; Wall Street Journal; Washington Post

Commentary

Retirement and Retirement Benefits

Reframing Retirement
Retirement is a fluid concept. Many retirees would consider returning to the workforce if conditions were right and they could set their own pace. A reframing of the aging and retirement process would allow us to see the issue in a new way.
Aug 9, 2021
MarketWatch
Child Well-Being

Biden's Child Tax Credit Will Bring Lifetime of Improvement
The American Rescue Plan is expected to cut child poverty in the United States by more than 40 percent. The benefits are important to families today and could be compounded over the hundred years these children are expected to live.
Apr 28, 2021
United Press International
Demographics

Humans Are Living Longer, So What Do We Do with All This Extra Time?
Medical and public health improvements over the past century have led to dramatic increases in longevity. New policies may be needed to ensure these extra years become mutually beneficial to all generations.
Feb 5, 2021
Dallas Morning News
Modern American Heroes: Let's Not Lose Sight of the Nameless Government Workers
There are 800,000 government employees that aren't being paid during the partial U.S. government shutdown. These workers play a critical role in making America safer and more secure, healthier and more prosperous.
Jan 14, 2019
USA Today
Global Security

Can Washington Successfully Prepare for the Future?
The impossibility of predicting the future does not remove the need to mull the uncertain. Policymakers should build in windows of time to think imaginatively about the pursuit of America's strategic objectives, and take a bird's-eye view of the role America can and should play in shaping an increasingly complex, chaotic world.
Apr 6, 2018
The National Interest
Decisionmaking

America and the World Are at a Crossroads
Populism is on the march across the globe. Many of the certainties of even the recent past seem much less certain now—including the idea of the United States maintaining a leadership role in the world.
Jul 3, 2017
RAND Review
Threat Assessment

How Trump Can Deter Russia and All of America's Other Enemies
There is no such thing as blanket deterrence. Rather, one must deter a specific adversary from taking a specific action. A holistic approach should include ramping up U.S. capabilities to anticipate emerging threats, including events that are unlikely to happen.
Apr 26, 2017
Fortune
International Diplomacy

A Three-Menu Path for Trump Foreign Policy
The Trump administration would benefit from a comprehensive strategic orientation — a basic set of operating principles backed by a set of actions and realistic budget — to guide the innumerable tactical decisions of U.S. foreign policy.
Apr 10, 2017
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Military Strategy

The New Global Juggling Act
Areas that have long been a focal point for defense planning -- Europe, the Middle East and East Asia -- are all facing profound and unsettling change, and the United States may no longer have the luxury of choosing among regions.
Oct 7, 2014
U.S. News & World Report
Military Tactics

Changing World Climate Requires a Dynamic Foreign Policy
As Secretary of State Kerry and former senator Chuck Hagel outline their thinking on the nation's strategy, let us hope that they both hold firm to the strategy that has served us well in the past and have the courage to explore a very different set of political and military ways to accomplish it, write Lynn Davis and Andrew Hoehn.
Feb 15, 2013
U.S. News & World Report
United States

America's Role in the World
It is time to be clear-headed again about the influence the U.S. has in the world. And it is time for the country to show the confidence--not to be confused with arrogance--that the rest of the world seems to have in it, writes Andrew R. Hoehn.
Oct 18, 2012
The RAND Blog
Military Force Planning

Real Roles, Missions Debate
The United States can and should move beyond a "one size fits all" approach to sizing military forces toward a construct that shapes each service for the types of operations it is actually expected to conduct in the future, write Andrew Hoehn and David Ochmanek.
Apr 7, 2008
Washington Times
America's Long Wars
Published commentary by RAND staff: America's Long Wars, in United Press International.
Feb 1, 2007
United Press International

Publications

Commercial Book
Age of Danger: Keeping America Safe in an Era of New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats
An urgent look at how America's national security machine went astray and how it fails to keep us safe — and what we can do to fix it.
May 24, 2023
Report
Discontinuities and Distractions — Rethinking Security for the Year 2040: Findings from a RAND Corporation Workshop
This report is based on a workshop that focused on how to better define, anticipate, and address continuities (trends that are unsurprising) and discontinuities (developments that are not considered but prove consequential enough to change history).
Apr 27, 2018
Multimedia
The Evolving Terrorist Threat: Implications for Global Security
These video conference proceedings present panel discussions from a daylong conference on the evolving terrorist threat, which took place on June 27, 2017, in the Washington office of the RAND Corporation.
Jul 12, 2017
Research Brief
Exploring America's Role in a Turbulent World: Strategic Rethink
This brief outlines the Strategic Rethink project and describes research documented in the final volume of the project, focusing on three different strategic orientations to satisfy the greatest number of U.S. interests and objectives.
Jan 18, 2017
Report
Strategic Choices for a Turbulent World: In Pursuit of Security and Opportunity
This report is the last of a series in which RAND explores the elements of a national strategy for the conduct of U.S. foreign policy, in this new era of turbulence and uncertainty. Three alternative strategic concepts are presented.
Jan 18, 2017
Research Brief
America's Security Deficit: Addressing the Imbalance Between Strategy and Resources in a Turbulent World
This research brief summarizes the second volume in RAND's Strategic Rethink series, in which RAND experts offer a detailed analysis of U.S. options for defense strategy in the context of a challenging global security environment.
Oct 19, 2015
Report
America's Security Deficit: Addressing the Imbalance Between Strategy and Resources in a Turbulent World: Strategic Rethink
Analyzes defense options available to respond to current and emerging threats to U.S. security and interests, focusing on ways to adapt military instruments, defense investments, and defense spending levels commensurate with the interests at stake.
Oct 19, 2015
Brochure
Challenges in U.S. National Security Policy: A Festschrift Honoring Edward L. (Ted) Warner
Among Ted Warner's many notable accomplishments, perhaps the most important has been the opportunity to mentor a substantial number of exceptionally talented men and women on various aspects of U.S. and Russian defense and arms control policy.
May 13, 2014
Report
Succession Management for Senior Military Positions: The Rumsfeld Model for Secretary of Defense Involvement
As Secretary of Defense, Donald H. Rumsfeld considerably revised the process for selecting senior U.S. military officers for top-ranking positions. The authors examine these changes and how the process has evolved since Rumsfeld's departure in 2006.
Jun 2, 2011
Report
Risking NATO: Testing the Limits of the Alliance in Afghanistan
NATO's success in Afghanistan -- or lack thereof -- will have significant implications for the alliance itself; failure to address the long and daunting list of related challenges would risk the alliance's long-term success and sustainability.
Nov 11, 2010
Report
A New Division of Labor: Meeting America's Security Challenges Beyond Iraq
The promotion of democracy and freedom abroad will continue to require changes in how U.S. armed forces are organized and employed and how the services relate to one another and to U.S. allies.
Apr 8, 2007
Research Brief
America's Security Challenges Require a New Division of Labor Among the Armed Forces
This research brief assesses the primary challenges to U.S. security in the emerging security environment and offers suggestions for how the U.S. strategy and the defense program should be adjusted in order to meet these challenges.
Mar 27, 2007

Multimedia

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RAND Remote: High Stakes, Fostering Innovation to Stem the Tide of America's Drug Problems
Jan 28, 2021
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The War against al Qa’ida and ISIS: A Net Assessment
Jun 27, 2017