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As Gates Plans Exit, Work Piles Up For His Successor
“With a lot of these efficiency initiatives, these are projected savings, this is what they’re estimating they’re going to save in the future. What quite often happens is that the savings don’t materialize like we expected,” said Todd Harrison, a longtime defense budget watcher at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
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Military no Longer Protected from Budget Knife
Todd Harrison, a senior fellow in defense budget studies at CSBA, called the proposed $5 per month bump in premiums for
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Pentagon Expands Role Of Elite Commando Units In Hunting Terrorist Weapons
Robert Martinage, then an analyst with the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, wrote in a 2008 report that only “select units” of the Pentagon Joint Special Operations Command “are equipped and trained in the requisite tactics, techniques and procedures” for conducting “render safe” missions.
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The Cost of a Soldier Deployed in Afghanistan
This number would be right for the war in Iraq, according to numbers from the Washington-based Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. $685,000, that's by the way, over 10 times more than the cost of a soldier deployed in World War II. So these wars are getting more expensive all the time.
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Afghan Forces Undergo Stricter Vetting By NATO Commanders
Infiltration is always a concern when training indigenous forces to combat an insurgency, said Andrew Krepinevich, president of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and an expert in counterinsurgency. Insurgents will attempt to join security forces if only to gain intelligence, he said.
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Pentagon Budget Sees Weapons Growth Above Inflation Through 2016
The projections represent real growth of 2.6 percent annually, said Todd Harrison, a defense budget analyst with the nonpartisan Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments in Washington.