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New Threats Spark DoD Spending Debate: Thinktanks Ponder $2 Trillion In Options
If you were hoping, after a bitterly contentious presidential campaign, that at least we’d have consensus on national defense spending — tough luck. Instead, teams from five leading thinktanks, all using the same budget simulator, came up with a more than $2 trillion spread of options.
Think Tanks Offer Wide-Ranging Security Strategy, Structure Proposals Seapower
Five of the nation’s top national security think tanks presented widely varying ideas Oct. 18 on the strategy, the military force structure and funding needed to meet the global security environment 10 years in the future.
CSIS’ Harrison on Alternative Defense Strategies
Todd Harrison of the Center for Strategic and International Studies on the alternative defense strategy recommendations from Washington’s top think tanks — CSIS, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, Center for a New American Security, the American Enterprise Institute and the CATO Institute — during an interview on Oct. 18 with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
Report Proposes Slashing U.S. Aircraft Carriers, Investing in Lasers to Combat Russia and China
The U.S. military is at an inflection point. Unable to remove itself completely from two protracted wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon has been forced to respond to a resurgent Russia and a rising China, while remaining ready to combat myriad terrorist threats around the world.
US Navy’s Stealth Destroyer Joins The Fleet
Bryan Clark, a naval analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments told USNI News earlier this year that it's likely the Zumwalt-class ships will be called on for different missions than Burke-class destroyers.
The US Army’s Answer for an A2/AD Shield in Asia
Plans for ‘Multi-Domain Battle’ to project power from land over sea & air.