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The 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review: An Initial Assessment
02/01/2010 This CSBA Backgrounder provides an initial assessment of the QDR’s strategy and force planning dimensions.
Few Surprises in the FY 2011 Defense Budget Request
02/01/2010
Defense Planning for the Long Haul: Scenarios, Operational Concepts, and the Future Security Environment
01/11/2010 This report translates the principal strategic challenges the United States is likely to confront into a set of plausible scenarios.
Release of Defense Planning for the Long Haul Report
01/11/2010 CSBA’s newest release, Defense Planning for the Long Haul: Scenarios, Operational Concepts, and the Future Security Environment, translates the principal strategic challenges the United States is likely to confront into a set of plausible scenarios. The report comes just weeks in advance of the Defense Department’s submission of the Quadrennial Defense Review to Congress in early February.
Regaining Strategic Competence
09/01/2009 The central argument of this report is that, in light of the complex and intensifying security challenges the United States now faces, the nation can no longer afford poor strategic performance. The time to reverse the decline in US strategic competence is long overdue. The first task is for American political and military leaders to develop a clearer understanding of what strategy actually is, and what cognitive skills are necessary to craft and implement good strategies.
Budget Request Begins Shift Toward Balanced Defense Posture
05/07/2009 Today’s release of the Obama Administration’s FY 2010 budget request signals a new direction for the Department of Defense. While the top-line budget figures and many of the programmatic decisions have already been released, the detailed budget unveiled today provides some clues as to how the new administration plans to remake the Defense Department. It begins the process of rebalancing the DoD’s portfolio of programs and activities to align them better with the national defense strategy.
Gates Submits Reform Budget for FY2010
05/07/2009 Secretary Gates termed the FY 2010 defense budget a “reform budget.” With today’s release of the detailed budget request, we begin to see what shape that reform will take and where he intends to lead the Department. This budget is a departure from the previous administration’s budgets.
Assessment of Secretary Gates' Decisions with CSBA's Defense Program Outlined in the "Strategy for the Long Haul"
04/10/2009 On April 6, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced substantial changes to the defense program that bring it more in line with CSBA’s "Strategy for the Long Haul” series of monographs. The reports are the culmination of over two years of research and analysis by CSBA, and assess existing and emerging challenges to US security, defense resources, the military services and their programs, America’s alliance structure, and strategy. This is a comparison of CSBA’s recommendations with the decisions made by Secretary Gates.
Gates Fires Opening Salvo in the Obama Administration's Defense Review
04/06/2009 CSBA's Comment on Secretary Gates' Announcement
Charting A Course
02/17/2009 presentation slides from congressional briefing
The US Navy: Charting a Course for Tomorrow's Fleet
02/17/2009 In this report, Work assesses the adequacy and affordability of current US Navy plans in light of trends in naval warfare, expected future budget environments and the likely operational demands associated with the enduring long-term strategic challenges. The report recommends changes to the current Navy plans in order to envision a future fleet that is more capable and affordable. 25th Annual Pre-Budget Release Briefing
02/12/2009
Audio record of the briefing with Andrew Krepinevich and Stan Collender 
U.S. Combat Training, Operational Art, and Strategic Competence
08/21/2008 This report assesses the need for an overhaul of training and education of America’s service personnel and the importance of strategic thinking in senior leaders. 
Defense Investment Strategies in an Uncertain World
08/21/2008 This report provides a framework for thinking about investment strategies at a time when the United States is at war, and facing the need to transform its military owing to the likelihood of significant shifts in the character of the military competition. 
The Challenges to U.S. National Security
08/21/2008 This report translates the principal challenges to US security into a representative set of contingencies in order to determine what resources will be required, and how they should be apportioned among forces and capabilities. 
U.S. Defense Budget -- Options and Choices for the Long Haul
08/21/2008 This report overviews the budget environment and explores a range of options to make the Services’ plans more affordable. 
Future Security Environment Presentation
08/21/2008 Presentation slides from August 21, 2008 Strategy for the Long Haul initiative launch. 
Investment Strategies Presentation
08/21/2008 Presentation slides from August 21, 2008 Strategy for the Long Haul initiative launch. 
Strategic Competence Presentation
08/21/2008 Presentation slides from August 21, 2008 Strategy for the Long Haul initiative launch.
The Future of U.S. Ground Forces: Challenges and Requirements
04/17/2007 Testimony before the Unites States Senate Committee on Armed Services
Technological Implications of the 2006 QDR
02/21/2007 Presentation Slides from briefing to MIT and Lincoln Laboratories
Evolving Military Affairs
05/22/2006 Significant change in the security environment is under way. However, the Pentagon is yet to catch up with these changes in the way wars are conducted.
Recapitalizing and Modernizing the Navy's Surface Battle-Line
03/30/2006 Robert Work, Ron O'Rourke, Eric Labs, & Capt. James McCarthy discuss the Surface Warfare Fleet in the 2006 QDR.
The Quadrennial Defense Review: Rethinking the US Military Posture
03/14/2006 Executive Director, Andrew Krepinevich, testifies before the House Armed Services Committee on March 14th, 2006.
FY 2007 Department of Defense Budget Priorities
03/01/2006 Testimony of Director of Budget Studies, Steven Kosiak before the House Armed Services Committee.
QDR Does Little to Improve Affordability of Long-Term Defense Plans
2/03/2006 An initial look at the Quadrennial Defense Review from an affordablility perspective.
The QDR and Long Range Surveillance and Strike
11/10/2005 Slides from the congressional briefing on the QDR and long range surveillance and strike.
The Quadrennial Defense Review: Rethinking the US Military Posture
10/24/2005 An anlysis of the $441.8 billion request for national defense authority for fiscal year 2006, not including funds for Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Quadrennial Defense Review
09/14/2005 Testimony of Executive Director Dr. Andrew Krepinevich before the House Armed Services Committee on the 2005 QDR.
The Cruise Missile Challenge
03/10/2005 An analysis of trends in personnel costs and the implications for the DOD plans and programs.
The 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review, the FY 2003 Defense Budget Request and the Way Ahead for Transformation: Meeting the "Rumsfeld Test"
06/19/2002 While there is much talk of transformation, the Defense Department has yet to signficantly shift funding for transformational systems
Skipping "Skipping A Generation__"
05/01/2002 President's promise of transformation via "skipping a generation" gets skipped in the Pentagon's quadrennial defense review.
The Transformation of Strategic-Strike Operations
01/11/2002 CSBA's report recommended that the Nuclear Posture Review consider the merits of a new type of strategic triad. The findings of the NPR released this week track closely with CSBA's recommendation.
QDR Offers Good Diagnosis, But Lacks Prescription
10/12/2001 Dr. Andrew Krepinevich outlined his assessment of DoD's recently released Quadrennial Defense Review.
A Strategy for a Long Peace
01/30/2001 The report examines the challenges of the future security environment and explores one transformational path, which the authors believe to be preferable to that pursued in the current defense program.
Preparing for the Anti-Access Threat: Looking Beyond the 2MTW Posture
09/27/2000 CSBA's seminar featuring the Services and campaign advisors provided a timely focus on the emerging challenge of access to future theaters of conflict.
The Quadrennial Defense Review - An Assessment
12/00/1997 A strategy oriented analysis of the QDR
Quadrennial Defense Review Likely To Reduce But Not Eliminate Defense Department's Plans/Funding Mismatch
06/06/1997 As a result of the recently completed QDR, DoD has decided to scale back a number of modernization programs and make other reductions to achieve savings. These actions will reduce but not eliminate DoD's plans/funding mismatch.
CSBA Staff Available To Comment On The Release Of The Quadrennial Defense Review
05/05/1997 CSBA staff is prepared to comment on the QDR
Restructuring for a New Era: Framing the Roles & Missions Debate
04/01/1995 Today, the United States faces a major challenge: restructuring its defense establishment to function efficiently and effectively in a new, dynamic security environment. This paper offers a framework for meeting that challenge. |
Quadrennial Defense ReviewSince 2001, the United States has seen New York and Washington attacked, sent US troops to invade and occupy Afghanistan and Iraq; wage an ongoing counterinsurgency in both of those counties; found itself fighting a Long War against radical Islamism; witnessed the continued drift toward nuclear proliferation in Asia, and observed the continued growth of Chinese military capabilities along disturbing lines. This is the environment confronted by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and defense planners in preparing the Pentagon’s Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), which was recently submitted to Congress. The QDR has four key tasks. The first is to determine the major challenges that the United States may have to confront over the next 20 years. The second is to present a strategy for meeting these challenges. Then, the QDR must assess whether the force structure and defense program proposed by the Defense Department are consistent with the diagnosis of the threats and the strategy proposed for addressing them. And finally, the QDR has to estimate the level of resources necessary to implement this strategy. In brief, the QDR assesses not only what needs to be done to ensure the security of our nation today, but also what must be done to prepare for threats that lie along the misty horizon of America’s future. |