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Use Of Nuclear Weapons If Trump President?
"Regardless of the outcome of the presidential election, the Japan-US alliance will continue to be the foundation of the security of the Western Pacific Region.
Pentagon Readies $6 Billion Supplemental OCO Request
Kate Blakeley, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments who previously worked at the Congressional Research Service, said splitting the $6 billion OCO supplemental between supporting troop levels in Afghanistan and the fight against ISIL would give both Democrats and Republicans "additional ammunition in the upcoming budget fight."
Pentagon Will Need To Fund ‘Enduring Requirements,’ Now In OCO Account, Once Combat Ends
Kate Blakeley, a defense budget analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, said the statement confirms what many people already know behind-the-scenes.
Admirals: Navy Needs a Bigger Fleet, and Now May Be the Best Time to Plan for It
The Navy is nearing the end of a triplet of Future Fleet Architecture studies – conducted by MITRE Corporation, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Analysis (CSBA) and the Navy – to look at how new technologies and concepts may change the size and composition of the Navy in the mid-term. While the Navy has not yet released the details of the three studies, the general consensus is that the future fleet will have to be larger than today’s.
Navy Eyeing the 2045 Battle Space in New Long-Term R&D Plan
If the effort lines up with the how the Navy plots its ship and aviation needs “this is a good idea,” Bryan Clark, a naval analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and former aide to retired former Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert, told USNI News on Wednesday…
Marines Seek To Outnumber Enemies With Robots
It’s a wasted opportunity to think of unmanned systems as simply substituting for manned ones, agreed Mark Gunzinger, a retired Air Force colonel now with the Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments. “Yes, the size of many of the DoD’s forces, such as its combat air forces, have been cut to unacceptable levels,” Gunzinger told me. “(But) it’s not about ‘getting the numbers up,'” he argued. It’s about the synergy between manned and unmanned systems, each doing things the other can’t.