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CSBA Welcomes New Board Members
The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA), a recognized leader in innovative thinking on defense planning and investment strategies, today announced the appointment of five new members to its Board of Directors: Pete du Pont, Vic H. Fazio, Nelson M. Ford, James J. Shinn and Laurence Zuriff.
Avoiding a DoD Bailout
Secretary Gates said recently: “If the Department of Defense can’t figure out a way to defend the United States on a budget of more than half a trillion dollars a year, then our problems are much bigger than anything that can be cured by buying a few more ships and planes.” He has a point. The problems in the defense budget are much bigger than the recent debates over buying more F-22s, cancelling the Presidential Helicopter, or building an alternative engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. In fact, the Department of Defense’s (DoD) problems are eerily similar to the challenges General Motors faced a year ago.