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Mattis to huddle with Congress as stop-gap budget looms
Mattis and the Pentagon may look to request their own supplemental Afghanistan spending as part of any CR legislation considered by Congress this month, said Katherine Blakeley, a research fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
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Lawmakers to grill Navy officials over fatal mishaps
Navy readiness-related funding has been trending higher virtually every year, according to Katherine Blakeley, a defense budget expert with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. She studied the issue as part of forthcoming analysis of the president’s 2018 request for Defense Department operations and maintenance funds.
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CSBA’s ‘Doing What You Know: The United States and 250 Years of Irregular War’
In a new study from the Center for Strategy and Budgetary Assessments entitled “Doing What You Know: The United States and 250 Years of Irregular War,” Dave Johnson, PhD, CSBA senior fellow, analyzes why the United States has been as of yet unable to win the post 9-11 “Global War on Terror” despite its consistent use of “irregular combat.”
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US Navy leader considers unmanned vehicles to increase power
The Navy could potentially get by with fewer ships if some of the larger, more capable unmanned vehicles could someday reliably do some of the easier missions ships do, but it's not a one-for-one replacement, said Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
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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.
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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.