CSBA in the News

Many analysts outside of government have also converged on about 350 ships. “Independent analyses have been calling for a fleet of roughly that size for some time, to include the 2010 QDR Independent Panel, as well as CSBA’s recent alternative fleet architecture study,” said Tom Mahnken, president of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Analyses, which Congress commissioned to do an (as yet unpublished) force structure assessment. 

“When you’re the CEO of a corporation, your job is to advance the interest of the corporation and the shareholder,” said Eric Edelman, a former ambassador who also held posts in the defense and state departments, “and that might not be your same view when you are representing the United States.”

Clark appreciates that Mabus understands how important it is to improve the personal lives of servicemen and women.

One reason the service is having so many problems keeping enough Hornets flying is that it decided to “skip a generation of fighter aircraft” by transitioning to the F-35 without buying any F/A-18 E-F Super Hornets as a stopgap measure, Jesse Sloman, an analyst with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments think tank in Washington, said in June.

“There may not be as much of an open wallet for every defense program as I think some people had anticipated,” said Katherine Blakeley, a research fellow at the nonpartisan Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.

President Obama failed to strongly challenge China's “adventurism” in the South China Sea, and now President-elect Trump must get tough with Beijing to reverse the country's “effective control over one of the world's most important strategic waterways,” a new report says.