Events

Report Release Webinar: Air Power Metamorphosis: Rethinking Air Force Combat Force Modernization

On Thursday, April 27th CSBA hosted a release webinar for its latest study, Air Power Metamorphosis: Rethinking Air Force Combat Force Modernization. The event featured remarks by the author, CSBA Non-Resident Senior Fellow Dr. Chris Bowie, and CSBA President and CEO, Dr. Thomas G. Mahnken. Veteran air power analyst Jeremiah Gertler served as moderator.

Book Talk Webinar: Toshi Yoshihara’s ‘Mao’s Army Goes to Sea’

On Thursday, March 2nd CSBA hosted a webinar discussion of Mao's Army Goes to Sea: The Island Campaigns and the Founding of China's Navy, a new history of the founding of the People's Liberation Army Navy, by our colleague CSBA Senior Fellow Dr. Toshi Yoshihara.

Report Release Webinar: Innovating for Great Power Competition: An Examination of Service and Joint Innovation Efforts

CSBA hosted a release webinar for its latest study, Innovating for Great Power Competition: An Examination of Service and Joint Innovation Efforts. The event featured remarks by the authors, CSBA President and CEO Dr. Thomas Mahnken, Director of Research and Studies Dr. Evan Montgomery, and Analyst Tyler Hacker.

Report Release Webinar: Chinese Lessons From the Pacific War: Implications for PLA Warfighting

CSBA hosted a release webinar for Toshi Yoshihara's latest study, Chinese Lessons From the Pacific War: Implications for PLA Warfighting. The event will feature the author's remarks on the study, followed by a moderated Q&A session.

Report Release Webinar: Moving Pieces: Near-Term Changes to Pacific Air Posture

Event Date: December 1, 2022
Related Experts: Carl Rehberg, Josh Chang

CSBA hosted a conversation between Carl Rehberg and the former Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Gen. (Ret) Carrol H. "Howie" Chandler to discuss CSBA's latest study, Moving Pieces: Near-Term Changes to Pacific Air Posture.

Webinar Featuring Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI)—Arming America’s Allies and Rings of Fire

CSBA hosted a webinar discussion on CSBA’s latest publications, Arming America’s Allies and Rings of Fire. Congressman Mike Gallagher, the representative of Wisconsin’s 8th Congressional District joined as a guest commenter on the monographs.

Press Releases

CSBA Welcomes Dr. Thane C. Clare, Captain, U.S. Navy (Retired) as Senior Fellow

March 13, 2023

Washington, DC, March 13, 2023 – The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA), one of the nation’s premier institutions for understanding competition and conflict, is pleased to announce that Captain Thane Clare, (USN, Ret.) has joined the Center as a Senior Fellow. He will support a wide range of CSBA’s work, including naval, air, and space power, strategic and defense planning for great-power competition, as well as the nexus between operational planning and defense acquisition.

Press Releases

CSBA Welcomes Dr. Sameer Lalwani as Non-Resident Senior Fellow

October 17, 2022

The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA), one of the nation’s premier centers for understanding competition and conflict, today announced the appointment of Dr. Sameer Lalwani as a Non-Resident Senior Fellow. Dr. Lalwani, currently a Senior Expert with the Asia Center of the United States Institute of Peace, will support CSBA’s ongoing work on Indo-Pacific strategy, nuclear deterrence, and strategic competition.

Press Releases

CSBA Introduces New Strategic Choices Tool to Assess China’s Military Modernization

August 4, 2022

The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) is pleased to announce the launch of its latest analytical innovation, the China Strategic Choices Tool (SCT). Developed as the result of a dedicated multi-year research and analysis effort, the China Strategic Choices Tool builds on more than a decade of experience with CSBA’s proprietary U.S. Strategic Choices Tool. The China Strategic Choices Tool represents a truly unique analytical capability that allows users to explore Chinese defense investments as well as the costs associated with various defense options.

In the News

Decision on recovery of Navy Super Hornet from sea could hinge on presence of upgrades

July 29, 2022 Stars and Stripes

Obtaining such advanced technology could enable the Russians or the Chinese to “learn a good deal, both about countering specific U.S. capabilities and perhaps learning things they could develop and employ in their own aircraft,” said Jan van Tol, a retired Navy officer and senior fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based think tank Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.

While not as sophisticated as the fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter, Super Hornets are “4.5-generation fighters, which means they would have some pretty sophisticated systems that the Russians or Chinese would be happy to get hold of,” van Tol said.

Navy Fleet Plan Needs 3-5% Annual Budget Increases for the Next Two Decades

July 29, 2022 Defense One

CNO’s Navigation Plan 2022 codifies fleet plans years in the making, but can it survive Congress?

High Stakes in Ukraine (with Bill Kristol and Daniel Fried)

July 29, 2022 The Bulwark

Eric and special guest host Bill Kristol discuss the war in Ukraine with former Ambassador to Poland and former Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Daniel Fried. They assess the military situation, the economic dimension of the conflict, what more can be done on sanctions, the prospects for European unity, and the danger of Putin deploying nuclear weapons to Belarus and the stakes of the conflict.

Inconsistent Congress: Analysis of the 2024 Defense Budget Request

Evaluate Like We Operate: Why DOD Should Evaluate Weapons Systems as Networked Force Packages, Not Individual Platforms

Extending Deterrence by Detection: The Case for Integrating Unmanned Aircraft Systems Into the Indo-Pacific Partnership for Maritime Domain Awareness

Beyond Precision: Maintaining America’s Strike Advantage in Great Power Conflict

The Decisive Decade: United States–China Competition in Defense Innovation and Defense Industrial Policy in and Beyond the 2020s

Speeding Toward Instability? Hypersonic Weapons and the Risks of Nuclear Use

Air Power Metamorphosis: Rethinking Air Force Combat Force Modernization

Innovating for Great Power Competition: An Examination of Service and Joint Innovation Efforts

Chinese Lessons From the Pacific War: Implications for PLA Warfighting

Featured Event

Report Release Webinar—Evaluate Like We Operate: Why DOD Should Evaluate Weapons Systems as Networked Force Packages, Not Individual Platforms

Report Release Webinar: Air Power Metamorphosis: Rethinking Air Force Combat Force Modernization

Book Talk Webinar: Toshi Yoshihara’s ‘Mao’s Army Goes to Sea’

Report Release Webinar: Innovating for Great Power Competition: An Examination of Service and Joint Innovation Efforts

Report Release Webinar: Chinese Lessons From the Pacific War: Implications for PLA Warfighting

Report Release Webinar: Moving Pieces: Near-Term Changes to Pacific Air Posture

Webinar Featuring Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI)—Arming America’s Allies and Rings of Fire

Latest News

CSBA Welcomes Dr. Thane C. Clare, Captain, U.S. Navy (Retired) as Senior Fellow

CSBA Welcomes Dr. Sameer Lalwani as Non-Resident Senior Fellow

CSBA Introduces New Strategic Choices Tool to Assess China’s Military Modernization

Decision on recovery of Navy Super Hornet from sea could hinge on presence of upgrades

Navy Fleet Plan Needs 3-5% Annual Budget Increases for the Next Two Decades

High Stakes in Ukraine (with Bill Kristol and Daniel Fried)