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Military officials to brief Trump on deployed forces, Afghanistan and ISIS
But that regional approach may be part of the delay, said Hal Brands, a professor at John Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. “Pakistanis can read the writing on the wall as well as anyone can,” Brands said. Without a commitment from the U.S. to maintain their presence in Afghanistan and keep India from increasing its influence there, Pakistan is “really not going to break in a fundamental way with their longstanding proxies there,” Brands said.
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GOP budget blueprint for defense exceeds BCA caps by $401B
Kate Blakeley, an analyst with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, said the opposition of fiscal conservatives in the House should not be discounted.
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DIUx going broke, but that might not be bad
Congress “expresses a significant hesitation and reservation about the impact of DIUx and whether it’s structured to actually effect what it says it’s going to effect.
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Army Boosting Laser Weapons Power Tenfold
“I don’t think 100 kW would be enough to zap cruise missiles out of the sky, (but) 100 kW — and even lower — may be sufficient to blind/degrade some weapon sensors,” causing them to miss, said directed energy expert Mark Gunzinger, of the Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments.
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The US Navy Works Directed Energy Weapons
“We need to push technology forward” and do it faster than historic advances in fielding new weapons capabilities, Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. William Moran said at the Directed Energy Summit, cohosted by Booz Allen Hamilton and the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment
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Militarization as a Challenge to the International Order
Toshi Yoshihara, a leading U.S. expert on Chinese maritime strategy and a senior fellow at U.S. policy think-tank Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, was interviewed by Sankei News. Mr. Yoshihara pointed out that China’s unilateral assertion of territorial rights in the South China Sea, and its militarization by China, pose “a challenge to the international liberal order spearheaded by the U.S.” At the same time, he stressed the importance of strengthening U.S. cooperation with its allies, including Japan, as well as “front-line states” bordering the South China Sea, e.g., the Philippines and Vietnam.