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Ready Player None? An End-To-End Assessment of the Air Force Collaborative Combat Aircraft Program

April 30, 2025
Travis Sharp

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No Dominant Strategy for Air Dominance: Collaborative Combat Aircraft Employment, Basing, and Sortie Generation in a Taiwan Scenario

April 30, 2025
Travis Sharp

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Peaceful Resolution: Reframing U.S. Defense Strategy Toward Taiwan

April 17, 2025
Jack Bianchi

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Relook Playbook: Defense Budgeting Insights From a CSBA Rebalancing Exercise

April 2, 2025
Travis Sharp, Casey Nicastro, Evan B. Montgomery

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The Lost Art of the Bargaining Chip? The Case for Gaining Negotiating Leverage for Nuclear Arms Control With Russia and China

February 6, 2025
David A. Cooper

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Focused Force: China’s Military Challenge and Australia’s Response

January 13, 2025
Toshi Yoshihara, Jack Bianchi, Casey Nicastro

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Putting It All Together: The 2025 Defense Budget Request, Alternative Budget Proposals, and NATO Spending

December 9, 2024
Travis Sharp

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More of the Same? The Future of the Russian Military And Its Ability to Change

March 18, 2024
Katherine E. Dahlstrand

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Strengthening the Phalanx: Layered, Comprehensive, and Distributed Air and Missile Defense in the Indo-Pacific

January 17, 2024
Carl Rehberg, Herbert Kemp

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Inconsistent Congress: Analysis of the 2024 Defense Budget Request

October 17, 2023
Travis Sharp

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Evaluate Like We Operate: Why DOD Should Evaluate Weapons Systems as Networked Force Packages, Not Individual Platforms

August 15, 2023
Travis Sharp, Tyler Hacker

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Extending Deterrence by Detection: The Case for Integrating Unmanned Aircraft Systems Into the Indo-Pacific Partnership for Maritime Domain Awareness

July 13, 2023
Travis Sharp, Thomas G. Mahnken, Tim Sadov

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Beyond Precision: Maintaining America’s Strike Advantage in Great Power Conflict

June 12, 2023
Tyler Hacker

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The Decisive Decade: United States–China Competition in Defense Innovation and Defense Industrial Policy in and Beyond the 2020s

May 22, 2023
Thomas G. Mahnken, Tai Ming Cheung

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