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Air Force Prepares to Hash Out Future Fighter Requirements
The Air Force is off to a good start, but still has much work to do in terms of establishing what performance variables will take priority, said Mark Gunzinger, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
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Why China Should Fear the US Military’s Third Offset Strategy
According to the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Affairs (CSBA), “anti-access (A2) strategies aim to prevent US forces from operating from fixed land bases in a theater of operations,” while “area-denial (AD) operations aim to prevent the freedom of action of maritime forces operating in the theater.”
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DoD’s Yearning for Innovation Doesn’t Always Translate to Dollars
These “are going to be priority areas of focus for what I think are going to be relatively small investments over the near term … for cumulatively $12 [billion] to $15 billion of investment over the next five year,” Katherine Blakeley a research fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments said.
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China Is Fueling a Submarine Arms Race in the Asia-Pacific
That’s because while China has spent billions of dollars upgrading many aspects of its armed forces, from fighter jets to naval destroyers, its ability to carry out anti-submarine warfare still lags behind, said Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
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Why Japan and South Korea Should Fear North Korea’s Underwater Nuclear Weapons
“This development would potentially give the DPRK [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea] a relatively secure second-strike capability. This could reduce the value of the U.S. nuclear deterrent against the North Koreans,” Bryan Clark a senior naval analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments told The National Interest.
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New Government Reports Remind Washington That Budget Landscape Remains Uncertain
Kate Blakeley, a defense budget analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, said the reports released by OMB and CBO illustrate how gridlocked Congress remains. "Right now, these reports on sequestration and the current BCA cap limits are a reminder that the BCA caps are still in force, and highlight the gulf that exists between the Senate and House [defense authorization] and appropriations bills," she said.