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Australia’s New $50 Billion French Submarines Could Be Obsolete
In the US, a much-discussed report by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, written by former Pentagon submarine expert Bryan Clark, has raised serious questions about the ability of submarines to retain their underwater stealth in the face of "technological advancements, many of them driven by rapid increases in computer processing power".
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Lawmakers Seek Assessment of Contractors’ Ability to Build Two Virginia Subs a Year
Bryan Clark, a senior fellow with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, said that falling below the requirement of 48 attack submarines, put in place in 2010, could mean "some of the intelligence gathering or crisis response type missions don't get done. It could result in gaps in intelligence."
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Experts Warn Weapons Gap Is Shrinking Between US, Russia and China
"Since the end of the Cold War, the U.S. military has never really had to fight an enemy that had its own arsenal of precision-guided weapons," said Mark Gunzinger, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
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McCain Opposes OCO-To-Base Funding Shifts; Sets up Likely Conference Issue With House
Kate Blakely, a defense budget analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, said the fiscal maneuver in Thornberry's bill was unlikely to find traction elsewhere in Congress. "By re-allocating $23 billion of war funding to the base defense budget, Rep. Thornberry is breaking last year's BCA deal," she said. "This approach doesn't seem likely to fly in the Senate, where both Republican and Democratic leadership are determined to stick to the deal."
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CSBA Sees Strategic Benefits To Distributive Lethality
The U.S. Navy’s philosophy of distributive lethality – arming more ships with more powerful missiles – will likely have more of an impact on naval strategy than operational concepts, according to Bryan Clark, military and naval analyst for the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
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Chinese Scarborough Shoal Base Would Threaten Manila
Putting offensive capabilities like long-range missiles on the islands would be “a very destabilizing move,” said Andrew Krepinevich, former president of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. Such assets would be intimidating in a crisis, but so vulnerable in an actual shooting war that China would face the temptation to “use it or lose it.” “Given the small size of the islands, the missiles would be highly vulnerable, as they could not rely on mobility or hardening to provide passive defense against attack,” said Krepinevich.