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CNN Interview: Slashing the Military’s Budget
In this interview with Barbara Starr, Todd Harrison weighs in on the proposed budget cuts for the U.S. military and the Services' response.
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Strategies on Preserving Combat and Industrial Capabilities
CSBA Senior Fellow Barry Watts goes on Defense News to discuss strategies on preserving combat and industrial capabilities.
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Pentagon’s Future Goes from Bad to Worse in Fiscal 2014
In this radio interview on the Federal News Radio, Todd Harrison offers a defense budget forecast for fiscal 2014 and discusses the near-term vs long term-dichotomy that the Pentagon faces as it articulates a strategy for dealing with the declining budgets.
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DoD Budget Decline
Barry Watts goes on ABC7's Government Matters to discuss the likely protracted period of decline in the DoD budget, and how the Pentagon can take a proactive approach to military priorities and sustaining the Defense Industrial Base.
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Defense Cuts Conundrum: Weighing the Hard Choices Ahead
Defense strategy is ultimately about making choices, which in peacetime often manifest themselves as decisions about the defense budget. As the budget gets squeezed, these choices become more difficult, and the current strategy may have to be modified or even abandoned. Yet without resource constraints, strategy would be unnecessary -- the military could simply throw more money at all its problems. Limited resources thus create the need for strategy, and as resources become more constrained, strategy becomes more important. The key strategic choice facing the Pentagon now is one of timing: whether to prioritize today’s military or tomorrow’s. Given the budget drawdown currently under way, the Pentagon cannot afford to do both -- it cannot get everything it wants.
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Trends and Uncertainty in the Defense Budget
Slides from September 17, 2013 presentation made by Todd Harrison at the AFA Air and Space 2013 Conference.