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Trump’s Defense Secretary Pick May Have Doubts About Land-Based Nuclear Missiles
"There may not be as much of an open wallet for every defense program as I think some people had anticipated," said Katherine Blakeley, a research fellow at the nonpartisan Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
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Trump Needs to Get Tough With China, New Study Says
President Obama failed to strongly challenge China's "adventurism" in the South China Sea, and now President-elect Trump must get tough with Beijing to reverse the country's "effective control over one of the world's most important strategic waterways," a new report says.
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Trump Tweet Hits Lockheed Stock Hard
“There is no arguing with the point that it’s had its growing pains and some of the growing pains were severe,” said Mark Gunzinger, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a defense research institute. “But at this point, frankly, it’s not experiencing the kinds of problems it was experiencing even three to four years ago.”
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Stress-Testing The Foundations Of American Grand Strategy
How solid are the assumptions underpinning American grand strategy? How valid are the key ideas that U.S. officials have about how the world works? Such assumptions represent the intellectual foundation upon which American statecraft rests. If the foundation is solid, American strategy has a decent chance of success. If the foundation is shaky, American strategy may collapse.
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Revitalizing Our Military: Suggestions for President-elect Donald Trump
The U.S. defense community, as well as partners around the world, are searching for clues as to how President-elect Donald Trump will reshape the U.S. military. On the campaign trail, Trump promised to repeal the Budget Control Act (BCA), raise defense spending, and reverse declines in military readiness and capabilities. He proposed building a 350-ship Navy, returning Army active-duty end-strength to at least 540,000, increasing the Marine Corps to more than 200,000 personnel, and maintaining more than 1,200 combat-coded Air Force fighter aircraft. “Peace Through Strength” will require spending above the President’s FY 2017 budget request, which exceeds the BCA caps by more than $100 billion over the next five years.
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Trump’s Twitter Attack on the F-35 Is Only His Latest on the Stealth Fighter
"We think we know kind of how volatile everything is going to be in the future, and it turns out we have no idea," said Katherine Blakeley, a research fellow at the nonpartisan Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.