Capstone National Security & Defense
What Makes Us Different?
From cross-border acquisitions, global expansion, energy security, sanctions risk, tax policy, aerospace regulation, and more, Capstone helps companies and investors navigate the increasingly complex, dynamic, and highly regulated worlds of national security and defense. We do this by combining unparalleled policy analysis and investment acumen to drive revenue, value, and growth.
We provide real-time and forward-looking policy analysis and predictions of legislative developments, executive actions, and international developments that help clients capitalize on new opportunities and avoid hidden challenges on a global scale.
With our broad range of national security and defense capabilities, our unique and varied public policy and industry relationships, and our propensity to go deeper in the weeds than anyone else, we are an ideal partner to help you solve complex national security policy and regulatory challenges.
We Predict Policy,
Quantify Impact,
and Create Strategy.
Our team of policy and investment analysts leverages our deep and diverse global policy subject matter expertise, vast industry knowledge, and our relationships with industry groups, regulators, policymakers, and relevant stakeholders worldwide to analyze the national security risk profile of corporate strategies and potential investments to create actionable best practices that mitigate hidden risks and find novel opportunities.
Capital and Corporate Strategy
- Advise clients on transactions complicated by national security considerations
- Provide global revenue-driving policy-driven strategy
- Idea-driven C-Suite advisory
- Global Industry Analysis
- Consumer patterns and concerns
Policy and Political Analysis
- Provide real-time analysis of key political and policy changes with detailed analysis of industry impact
- International regulatory agency analysis and risk analysis
- Political risk audits
- Geopolitical risk analysis and sanctions review
Case Studies
Capstone has a proven track record of providing in-depth analysis across a wide range of policy and regulatory issues. Our case studies demonstrate our ability to help clients navigate complex policy challenges and develop targeted revenue-driving strategies.
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Our Latest National Security Insights
The Strategic Shift: Why US-China Policy Will Shift to More Subtle Posturing
By Elena McGovern Introduction Capstone believes the Biden administration’s policy toward China in 2024 will double down on making necessary but underappreciated investments to confront China economically and militarily, all while seeking to carefully avoid ratcheting...
America’s Chance to Blunt China’s Encroachment | WSJ Opinion
Offering better investment terms to developing countries is essential to prevent Beijing from controlling the supply of important natural resources. By: Daniel Silverberg and Elena McGovern This opinion piece was originally published by The Wall Street Journal...
Biden’s G20 China Play: Doubling Down on Infrastructure
September 18, 2023 By Daniel Silverberg, Co-head of Capstone’s National Security and Defense Practice The Biden administration made its latest move last week in the great US-China global power game. The strategy: doubling down on infrastructure. Capstone has...
In the News
TIME: Ukraine’s Conflict Has Rippled All the Way to the Arctic Circle
“I would not put it past [Russian President Vladimir] Putin to now view the Arctic as another avenue for conflict, and one that will allow him to flex his muscles,” says Daniel Silverberg, a managing director for the Washington, D.C.-based policy strategy consultancy Capstone.
The Atlantic: Biden Was Right
In 2017, I arrived at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai Airport as part of a congressional staff delegation. Even though the U.S. embassy stood a mere four miles away, safety concerns necessitated our helicoptering from a recently constructed multimillion-dollar transit facility instead of traveling by road.
The Hill: The controversial Iron Dome vote masks the GOP’s debt ceiling strategy
There has been intense hand-wringing about how a handful of Democratic members of Congress last week caused a delay on a vote to suspend the debt ceiling and fund the government because the original bill included funding for the Iron Dome missile defense system for Israel.
