The United States needs a new lexicon that explains the space environment in clear terms. Whether Americans like it or not, space has morphed from our aspirational “final frontier” to an area defined by growing international competition that could flash into a hot war.
Bryan Clark of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments discusses the new report co-authored with Jesse Sloman — “Amphibious Operations in an Era of Precision Weapons” — with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the United States Navy Memorial.
Amphibious operations will remain a vital component of future U.S. military capabilities, but the proliferation of long-range, precision anti-ship and aircraft defense systems could make the conduct of such operations using current tactics, platforms and weapons prohibitively deadly.
Want to win from the water? Add a fourth ship to deploying amphibious ready groups and double the number of strike fighter aircraft aboard.
The Marine Corps prides itself on being able to project power from sea to shore. But its land vehicles are just too heavy for its key airborne ship-to-shore connector, the MV-22 Osprey to carry. In a report released yesterday by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, authors Bryan Clark and Jesse Sloman say increased protection requirements are making new vehicles even heavier than the old ones they’re replacing.
Marines are famously aggressive, but a new battle plan from a leading thinktank makes Iwo Jima look low-risk. The Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments’ proposed concept of operations is imaginative, exciting and more than a little scary.
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