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Fighting Down to the Last $30 Billion
“They’re using that money largely to preserve force structure," said Katherine Blakeley, a research fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. "So that’s the number of people in the Army, the number of people in the Marines -- to avoid having to make deeper cuts.”
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After U.S. Show of Force, China Takes Hard Line on South China Sea
Patrols such as the one made by the Stennis Carrier Strike Group are intended to assure allies and regional partners that the U.S. is committed to their interests in the region, said Bryan Clark, a retired submarine officer and analyst with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. "Nobody in Beijing thinks that the United States doesn't care about what's happening in the South China Sea, but they might tell our allies that," he said. "They might say, 'Hey, you say the U.S. has your back but we don't ever see them around here.'"
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Canberra’s Evolving Security Policy
The publication on February 25 of the 2016 Defense White Paper by the Australian government highlights Canberra’s response to evolving trends in the Asia-Pacific region. The white paper, released by the government of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull after a long gestation, outlines an ambitious modernization program for the Australian Defense Force.
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Top OSD Officials Find Services’ ‘Wish Lists’ Unhelpful to FY-17 Budget Process
Kate Blakeley, a defense analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, told Inside Defense in an email that granting any of the specific UPL items, especially increasing weapon system quantities, would have a significant impact to DOD's five-year defense budget plan since the department will still be forced to operate under the 2011 Budget Control Act spending caps if Congress doesn't again raise them in the form of a bipartisan deal.
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The Path Ahead: Dual Deterrence and The Taiwanese Elections
In the rare incident of war, deterrence through protraction may be Taiwan most salient choice. A recent study headed by the Vice President of Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments suggests the MND adopts Hard ROC 2.0 where Taiwan must deflect incoming attacks by gaining a good sense of the maritime and airspace environment in the event of war.
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New External DDG-1000 Mast Reduces Ship’s Stealth From Original Design
The original design of the ship would have had a much smaller RCS, but cost considerations prompted the Navy over the last several years to make the trades in increasing RCS to save money, Bryan Clark, naval analyst Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) and former special assistant to past Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert, told USNI News on Wednesday.