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Defense Analysts Explain Real Cost of Nuclear Forces
The United States is facing an increasingly constrained fiscal environment, with the 2011 Budget Control Act (BCA) placing mandatory limits on spending. At the same time, all three legs of the U.S. nuclear triad—land-based, sea-based, and airborne—are due for extensive modernization.
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CNO: South China Sea patrols are not provocative
Driving U.S. warships near China's artificial archipelago is a routine operation and shouldn't be seen as provocative, the U.S. Navy's top officer said Thursday.
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Old Budget System Makes Modernizing Nuclear Defense Difficult
The need to modernize the U.S. nuclear arsenal is inevitable, but modernization of Major Force Programs for budget projections needs to come first, said panelists at The Heritage Foundation this month.
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Turkey Angers the Jihadists It Once Tolerated
With Turkish authorities now singling out the Islamic State as the chief suspect in this weekend's terrorist attack in Ankara, many media outlets have turned their anger toward the government. Did Ankara invite this attack with a lax policy toward jihadists in Syria?
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Interview with Bryan Clark: With Warships, U.S. Navy Challenges China’s Man-Made Islands
Bryan Clark describes Chinese land reclamation activities in the South China Sea and explores their diplomatic and military repercussions.
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Is Caspian Sea Fleet a Game-Changer?
Few naval strategists would count Russia’s Caspian Sea flotilla among significant units in an order of battle. The inland sea features naval forces from the four bordering countries — Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkmenistan in addition to Russia — but most vessels are small missile-armed or patrol craft, nearly all well under 1,000 tons. The forces have been viewed purely as local craft.