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Defense Expert: Pentagon Inflating Afghan Costs
The Pentagon is inflating its expected costs for the advisory mission in Afghanistan next year, according to a defense expert.
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Analyst Critical of Navy’s Ohio Replacement Submarine Funding Strategy
A senior budget analyst said the Navy should ask for a plus-up of its shipbuilding account to fund the Ohio Replacement ballistic-missile submarine rather than using a separate account outside of its budget.
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The 2016 Defense Budget: It’s All About the Budget Caps
Next Monday the President is scheduled to submit his fiscal year 2016 budget request to Congress, an annual process that marks the official beginning of the budget season. While we don’t have the details of what will be included in this year’s defense budget yet, the broad outlines are well known. The Defense Department’s base budget for FY 2016 is expected to total $534 billion (not including war funding), which is a six percent real increase from the level appropriated in FY 2015. The administration is also expected to request an additional $51 billion in war funding, for a total of some $585 billion in DoD funding.
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Videos: Edelman Testifies on Iran Nuclear Negotiations
On January 27, 2015, Ambassador Eric Edelman, Distinguished Fellow at CSBA, testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the implications of the Obama Administration’s approach to the Iran nuclear negotiations. In his testimony, Ambassador Edelman expressed concern over the pattern of concessions and negotiating dynamic and the resulting prospect of negotiations moving far beyond the parameters of an acceptable final agreement. He called on the American policymakers to use all available instruments of coercive diplomacy to restore credibility to the oft-repeated statement that every option remains on the table to prevent a nuclear Iran.
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The Pentagon’s New Fiscal Cliff
President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans say they want to boost Pentagon spending by tens of billions of dollars next year — but that’s just budget theater.
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Military Compensation Reform: A New Way of Thinking
Tomorrow, the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission is due to release its final report and recommendations to Congress. CSBA has been at the leading edge of this issue. Todd Harrison’s 2012 report, Rebalancing Military Compensation: An Evidence-Based Approach, provided a new way of thinking about compensation reform that was the basis for the survey of military personnel conducted by the commission.