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US Navy leader considers unmanned vehicles to increase power
The Navy could potentially get by with fewer ships if some of the larger, more capable unmanned vehicles could someday reliably do some of the easier missions ships do, but it's not a one-for-one replacement, said Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
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Pentagon team working National Defense Strategy sizing up return to ‘two-war’ paradigm
Congress, meanwhile, has named a new commission to review the NDS, military readiness, the strategic environment and other issues.
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Defense Budget Cuts Across the Board Loom as Soon as January
Trump’s defense budget request “is playing fourth fiddle to tax cuts, cutting non-defense discretionary by 30 percent over a decade to a record low of 1.4 percent of” gross domestic product “and balancing the federal budget within 10 years,” Katherine Blakeley, a defense budget analyst for the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, wrote in a new report.
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Arctic ambitions: could the opening up of the Arctic become the next South China Sea?
Speaking to Breaking Defence, retired Navy strategist Bryan Clark, who is now with the Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments refuted the comparison made by the US Coast Guard Commandant.
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What Are America’s Alliances Good For?
ABSTRACT: The costs and risks associated with America’s military alliances have always been more visible and easily understood than the benefits. In reality, however, those costs and risks are frequently overstated, whereas the benefits are more numerous and significant than often appreciated. This article offers a more accurate net assessment of America’s alliances in hopes of better informing current policy debates.
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250 Years of American Irregular Warfare
A new white paper published by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments has been released about America’s involvement in irregular warfare for the past 250 years.