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Begging for War: The Latest in the North Korea Crisis
Mattis and the Pentagon may look to request supplemental funding for Afghanistan as part of any CR legislation considered by Congress this month, said Katherine Blakeley, a research fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. "If I saw that I could get this [Afghanistan] element funded now, I would want to seize that opportunity," she said.
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Navy Upgrades Attack Submarine Weapons Controls, Sensors
Senior Navy officials have explained that the innovations brought to fruition with these recent efforts do, at least in part, help address an issue raised by a report more than a year ago by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
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Gordon Morse: Did the Navy’s tipping point just tip after accidents?
There have been other, more recent reports. The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments said almost two years ago that the “demand signals” have too long exceeded the resources available to meet them.
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Mattis to huddle with Congress as stop-gap budget looms
Mattis and the Pentagon may look to request their own supplemental Afghanistan spending as part of any CR legislation considered by Congress this month, said Katherine Blakeley, a research fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
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Lawmakers to grill Navy officials over fatal mishaps
Navy readiness-related funding has been trending higher virtually every year, according to Katherine Blakeley, a defense budget expert with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. She studied the issue as part of forthcoming analysis of the president’s 2018 request for Defense Department operations and maintenance funds.
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CSBA’s ‘Doing What You Know: The United States and 250 Years of Irregular War’
In a new study from the Center for Strategy and Budgetary Assessments entitled “Doing What You Know: The United States and 250 Years of Irregular War,” Dave Johnson, PhD, CSBA senior fellow, analyzes why the United States has been as of yet unable to win the post 9-11 “Global War on Terror” despite its consistent use of “irregular combat.”