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Budget Experts Available for Commentary

Laureen Andrews	Published 01/30/2002 Press Release

Contact: Lena Buck		PHONE: (202) 331-7990
January 30, 2002		FAX: (202) 331-8019

With the upcoming release of the president's FY 2003 budget request on February 4th, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments will be available, throughout the budget season, for comments and analysis.

STEVEN M. KOSIAK: program/budget mismatch; readiness and modernization; weapon system costs; funding options; force structure costs; contingency operations costs; and military pay and retirement issues.

Mr. Kosiak is the CSBA Director of Budget Studies. He is the author of CSBA's annual defense budget reports, including the same-day analysis of the president's defense budget request, and selected issue reports including Buying Tomorrow’s Military: Options for Modernizing the Defense Capital Stock and Options for U.S. Fighter Modernization. He is the co-author with Dr. Krepinevich and Mr. Vickers of A Strategy for a Long Peace and he contributes extensively to all CSBA research activities. Mr. Kosiak is a frequent speaker on defense issues, including readiness and modernization programs, and the defense budget process. He holds a BA from the University of Minnesota, an MPA from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, and a JD from Georgetown University.

ANDREW F. KREPINEVICH: connection between the budget and overall strategic requirements; defense transformation; naval/ ground/ air operations; military systems capabilities; and the revolution in military affairs.

Dr. Krepinevich is the Executive Director of CSBA. He has extensive strategic planning and executive management experience in national security and technology policy, having served as Assistant to the Director of the Defense Department's Office of Net Assessment, Assistant for Special Projects on the staff of three Secretaries of Defense, and as a member of the National Defense Panel. He has written extensively on a variety of security-related issues, to include articles published in The National Interest, Issues in Science and Technology, Armed Forces Journal International, Joint Forces Quarterly, and Strategic Review. He is the author of the award-winning book, The Army and Vietnam, as well as such monographs as The Transformation of Strategic-Strike Operations (with Robert Martinage) and Transforming America’s Alliances. Dr. Krepinevich is also a co-author with Mr. Kosiak and Mr. Vickers of A Strategy for a Long Peace. He is a graduate of West Point and holds an MPA and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He retired from the US Army in 1993 as a Lieutenant Colonel.

MICHAEL G. VICKERS: the revolution in military affairs; alternative defense strategies; transformation strategy, and strategies for exploiting American dominance.

Mr. Vickers is the Director of Strategic Studies for CSBA. He is currently providing extensive strategy consulting for the office of the Secretary of Defense in support of the Bush Administration on issues such as the Quadrennial Defense Review and the ongoing war on terrorism. Mr. Vickers has also discussed these topics on various network news programs. He previously served with the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where he worked on new operational concepts and organizational design to exploit the emerging revolution in military affairs. Mr. Vickers is the author of “The Revolution Military Affairs and Military Capabilities” in Broadening the Planning Parameters of Future Conflict, a chapter in War in the Information Age, and co-author of A Strategy for a Long Peace with Dr. Krepinevich and Mr. Kosiak. He also recently authored "Revolution Deferred: Kosovo and the Transformation of War," in Andrew Bacevich and Eliot Cohen, eds., War Over Kosovo: Politics and Strategy in a Global Age. A former Special Forces Officer and CIA Operations Officer with extensive operational experience, Mr. Vickers received advanced degrees from Johns Hopkins University in Strategic Studies and International Economics, as well as from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) is an independent policy research institute established to promote innovative thinking about defense planning and investment strategies for the 21st century. CSBA research makes clear the inextricable link between defense strategies and budgets in fostering a more effective and efficient defense, and the need to transform the U.S. military in light of the emerging military revolution. For more information on CSBA, see our web site at: http://www.csbaonline.org.

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