Publications
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Search Publications
Briefs
Backgrounder: Operating from Range to Defeat Iran’s Anti-Access and Area-Denial Threats
The Obama administration has released new strategic guidance for the Department of Defense (DoD) that announces its intent to “rebalance toward the Asia-Pacific region” and maintain the capability to “project power despite anti-access and area-denial challenges.” As the U.S. military assesses planning and resource initiatives required to support these objectives, it should not forget the need to address Iran’s emerging anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) strategy and the threat that it represents to the peace and stability of the Persian Gulf.
Studies
Outside-In: Operating from Range to Defeat Iran’s Anti-Access and Area-Denial Threats
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the U.S. military has been able to project power overseas ..
Briefs
Five Facts About Defense and Sequestration
1. Defense Funding Under Sequestration Would Fall to FY 2007 Levels 2. War Funding Is Exempt from Budget Caps...
Testimonies
The Defense Industrial Base: A National Security Imperative
Chairman Shuster, Mr. Larsen, and Members of the Defense Business Panel, thank you for inviting me to testify at today’s hearing on the imperative to preserve essential elements of U.S. defense industrial base.
Briefs
Changing the Business of Defense
DoD faces a fundamental choice in how it prepares to trim its budget under such a high degree of uncertainty. It can change the way it does business or change the business it does. Under the deepest cuts proposed, it may well need to do both.
Studies
Sustaining Critical Sectors of the U.S. Defense Industrial Base
This monograph focuses on two main questions concerning what is most accurately described as the “military-industrial-Congressional” complex