Events

The United States faces a very different set of security challenges than it has since the Cold War. Great power competitors such as China and Russia improved their military capabilities over the last two decades while America focused on Middle East insurgencies, and now appear willing to challenge the international order. They are likely to replace transnational terrorism in the near future as the primary concern of U.S. military planners. Gaining an advantage in great power competitions, deterring aggression, and reassuring allies will require changes to the ships, aircraft, weapons, sensors, basing, and readiness processes of U.S. naval forces, which essentially operated unopposed since the Berlin Wall fell. CSBA’s Restoring American Seapower: A New Fleet Architecture for the United States Navy explores those implications and proposes a new fleet construct for the U.S. Navy to pursue over the next two decades.

CSBA invites you to a discussion of a U.S. defense strategy for Europe and thoughts on how best to manage US alliances at a time when many US allies--particularly in Europe--are in relative decline.

Join Dr. Tom Mahnken, CSBA President, for a discussion of Reinforcing The Front Line. 

Join CSBA Distinguished Senior Fellow Dr. Andrew Krepinevich for a discussion of his Preserving the Balance -- A Eurasia Defense Strategy which focuses on the United States' long-standing vital interest in preventing the rise of a hegemonic power on the Eurasian land mass capable of dominating its human, technical and material resources. Such a development would represent a major threat to U.S. national security.

The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) and the FPI Center for Military and Diplomatic History invite you to attend a discussion of Barry Strauss’s most recent publication, on the rivalry between Rome versus Carthage.

The competition between amphibious forces and defenders ashore, however, is entering a new, more deadly, phase. Enemy surface-to-air missiles and anti-ship cruise missiles have gained the reach and lethality to protect long areas of coastline and significantly constrain America's options for an amphibious assault.