MARATHON

Marathon is a 501(c)(3) non-profit research organization. It is funded by private individuals and foundations, as well as by grants from or contract work for the U.S. Government. Marathon does not seek or accept funding from corporations or from foreign sources... Helping develop national strategies is the original purpose of think tanks, which at their best provide the space, flexibility, and freedom to think in broad scope but rigorously and with an acute sense of the real problems government faces. Neither government itself, with its constant press of business, nor academia, with its focus on scholarship, can provide this for the country. To that end, Marathon was designed from the beginning to be a think tank as the model was originally conceived - an institution dedicated to equipping the nation and its leaders with the strategic insights and frameworks needed to deal with the deep and difficult problems of great power competition... What We Do America is entering an era of..

Also known as: The Marathon Initiative

Primary location: Washington United States