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Barack Obama and the Dilemmas of American Grand Strategy
Did the Obama administration have a grand strategy? Yes, if one defines grand strategy realistically. Was it effective? That record was more ambiguous, revealing fundamental dilemmas of contemporary U.S. grand strategy that are unlikely to disappear anytime soon.
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Lawmakers Demand Answers on DIUx Plan
Congress “expresses a significant hesitation and reservation about the impact of DIUx and whether it’s structured to actually affect what it says it’s going to effect. There has been a considerable strain of skepticism among members of Congress that DIUx is organized and structured and has the right plan that it promises can bring new entrants to the defense market to the table and then most importantly that it can actually deliver on bringing new technology where it matters, which is to the warfighter,” said Katherine Blakeley, a research fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
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Sustaining American Grand Strategy
Good evening, listeners! We have another excellent episode for you this week as our host, Richard Aldous, welcomes Hal Brands to the show to talk about American grand strategy.
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Sequester Special Report: Defense Industry Preps For The Worst
But Katherine Blakeley, a research fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, says not all companies can diversfy equally. Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin, for example, still mostly serve the Pentagon, but Boeing has a "pretty robust" commercial sector to offset a drop in defense sales.
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Sequester Special Report: Military Men And Women Hardest Hit
"Trump promised to grow the military ... and end mandatory budget caps, but did not address other specific initiatives or how to pay for them," said Bryan Clark, an analyst with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, who calls the mandatory spending limits imposed by sequestration "the most significant and pervasive institutional challenge DoD faces today."
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Sequester Special Report: Warships, Fighters, Vehicles Mostly Saved
Still, the sum appropriated through fiscal 2016 was $105.6 billion less than was projected in the fiscal 2011 defense plan, according to Katherine Blakeley, a research fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.