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Keep Talking, Mr. President

  • October 24, 2016
  • Ricardo Saludo
  • Manila Times

We should also drastically pull back the EDCA, reducing rotations of the Seventh Fleet, and giving access to just one base far away from population centers and croplands. And US assistance should focus on marine surveillance aircraft, anti-ship coastal defenses, and anti-aircraft systems, the A2/AD gear recommended by Washington think tank Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.

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National Defense Week

  • October 23, 2016
  • Francis Rose

Jacob Cohn of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments on the newest edition of their Strategic Choices Tool

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5 Think Tanks Unveil Latest Fashions In Warfighting

  • October 20, 2016
  • Loren Thompson
  • The National Interest

The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments in effect made this Fashion Week in the military think-tank world by releasing on Monday the recommendations of five organizations that were asked to propose alternative defense postures for the U.S. 

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The Next War? Trench Warfare With Smart Bombs

  • October 19, 2016
  • Sydney Freedberg Jr.
  • Breaking Defense

 “Like the European powers at the start of World War I, we could find ourselves tremendously unprepared,” said Tom Mahnken, president of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. 

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Why America Must Overhaul its Military

  • October 19, 2016
  • Jerry Hendrix, Paul Scharre, Elbridge Colby
  • The National Interest

The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments recently hosted a Strategic Choices Exercise, where defense analysts from a number of think tanks took turns designing their optimum future force.

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Analysts Propose Alternative Defense Budgets

  • October 19, 2016
  • Tony Bertuca
  • Inside Defense

The analysts and teams composed of colleagues each built 10-year budgets using a “strategic choices” tool developed by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.

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