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Dealing with Reality Shock: Refocusing on The World We Have Rather Than the World We Wish We Would Have
During recent conversations with Ross Babbage in the United States and then Australia, we discussed the dynamics of change in the global environment and the challenges posed to the liberal democracies by the illiberal powers.
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CSBA’s Clark: US Navy’s Future Frigate ‘Needs to Be a Multi-Mission Capable Ship
Bryan Clark, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, says the US Navy’s future frigate “needs to be a multi-mission capable ship” and gives Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian a status update on the program, including its recent request for information soliciting “industry’s ideas on what the frigate should be able to do,” during an August 2017 interview at CSBA headquarters in Washington.
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Turkey Is Engaging in Hostage Diplomacy with The US, Officials Say
Eric Edelman, who served as US ambassador to Turkey from 2003 to 2005, cited Giuliani's role as well as reports that Erdogan had personally mentioned the case with Tillerson and the Trump administration. "At a minimum," he said, those contacts give “the appearance that the Turkish government is engaged in hostage diplomacy.”
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India’s joint doctrine and its grand strategy
Hal Brands defines grand strategy as “the intellectual architecture that gives form and structure to foreign policy.”
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Analysts Worried About New Navy Frigate
Bryan Clark, a naval analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, said the RFI “opens up the aperture too much” in terms of what that future frigate might look like.
“It makes it seem like it could be anything from … a relatively low-end ship or less capable ship, all the way up to a frigate that can do air defense for another ship and do anti-submarine warfare,” he said.
In an effort to save money, the Navy might buy a vessel with insufficient capabilities, he said.
The RFI “establishes a capability hierarchy that could support development of a less expensive and less capable ship that does not meet the Navy’s needs,” he said.
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Despite North Korea threat, defense funding bill could get ‘kicked down the road’ again
"There's a deep fundamental divide between the Freedom Caucus members in the House, the more mainline conservatives in the House and the Senate, and the Democrats in the House and Senate," said Katherine Blakeley, a research fellow at the nonpartisan Center for Strategic and Budgeting Assessments.
Added Blakeley, "What exactly to do about defense spending is almost certainly going to get kicked down the road until about December," she said.