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Pentagon team working National Defense Strategy sizing up return to ‘two-war’ paradigm
Congress, meanwhile, has named a new commission to review the NDS, military readiness, the strategic environment and other issues.
Defense Budget Cuts Across the Board Loom as Soon as January
Trump’s defense budget request “is playing fourth fiddle to tax cuts, cutting non-defense discretionary by 30 percent over a decade to a record low of 1.4 percent of” gross domestic product “and balancing the federal budget within 10 years,” Katherine Blakeley, a defense budget analyst for the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, wrote in a new report.
Arctic ambitions: could the opening up of the Arctic become the next South China Sea?
Speaking to Breaking Defence, retired Navy strategist Bryan Clark, who is now with the Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments refuted the comparison made by the US Coast Guard Commandant.
250 Years of American Irregular Warfare
A new white paper published by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments has been released about America’s involvement in irregular warfare for the past 250 years.
Fatigue and Training Gaps Spell Disaster at Sea, Sailors Warn
In the past two decades, the number of Navy ships has decreased by about 20 percent, though the time they are deployed has remained the same, according to a 2015 report by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a Washington research group funded by the Defense Department. The increased burden has fallen disproportionately on the Seventh Fleet.
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The Navy had 271 ships in 2015, 20% fewer than in 1998, and still kept 100 ships out at sea, according to Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment.