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Videos - Toward a New Offset Strategy
The U.S. military needs to “offset” the investments that adversaries are making in anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) capabilities—particularly their expanding missile inventories—by leveraging U.S. advantages in unmanned systems and automation, extended-range and low-observable air operations, undersea warfare, and complex system engineering and integration. Doing so would allow the United States to maintain its ability to project power, albeit in novel forms, despite the possession of A2/AD capabilities by hostile forces. This is the central argument of a new CSBA report by Senior Fellow Robert Martinage, Toward a Third Offset Strategy—Exploiting U.S. Long-Term Advantages to Restore U.S. Global Power Projection Capability.
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A Nuclear Deal with Iran Will Require the West to Reevaluate Its Presumptions
After a decade of patient negotiations with Iran over its contested nuclear program, the prospects of the United States and other world powers securing a final deal are not good. The wheels of diplomacy will grind on and an extension of the talks should be granted. But it is time to acknowledge that the policy of engagement has been predicated on a series of assumptions that, although logical, have proven largely incorrect. As Washington assesses its next moves, it would be wise to reconsider the judgments that have underwritten its approach to one of its most elusive adversaries.
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Videos – Commanding the Seas: A Plan to Reinvigorate U.S. Navy Surface Warfare
On November 18, 2014, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments hosted a congressional discussion sponsored by Senator Tammy Baldwin and Representative Reid Ribble to discuss a new operational concept to guide evolution of the U.S. surface force.
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A Strategy to Save U.S. Military Superiority
Facing an uncertain period of fiscal austerity, the U.S. military nevertheless confronts a range of worsening security threats around the globe. Dealing with emerging threats is increasingly difficult as traditional sources of U.S. military advantage are being undermined by the maturation and proliferation of disruptive technologies—most notably, anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) capabilities. Secretary of Defense Hagel recently cautioned that, “disruptive technologies and destructive weapons once solely possessed by only advanced nations” are proliferating widely, including to highly advanced and unsophisticated militaries alike, as well as even some non-state extremist groups. Most prominently, China and Russia are “pursuing and funding long-term, comprehensive military modernization programs,” to include fielding an array of capabilities “designed to counter traditional U.S. military advantages—in particular, our ability to project power to any region across the globe by surging aircraft, ships, troops, and supplies.”[1]
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How Many Flying Hours Does It Take To Kill a Terrorist?
How many flying hours, steaming days or tank miles does it take to kill a terrorist?
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The Indian Navy Has a Big Problem: The Subsurface Dilemma
While India's navy is certainly attracting lots of attention in the press, it faces a major challenge that might not be easily solvable.