Earlier this month Navy Secretary Ray Mabus remarked that the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter “should be, and almost certainly will be, the last manned strike fighter aircraft the Department of the Navy will ever buy or fly.”
Today, all of CSBA’s senior scholars join dozens of experts from a bipartisan group of think tanks in calling for reforms to the Department of Defense.
As it stands today, servicemembers who advance through the Department of Defense are entitled to a pension of 50 percent of their income at retirement after 20 years of service. But a new proposal making its way through Congress would lower that to 40 percent and add a 401(k) savings account.
Can the Defense Department succeed in future budget battles without some of its most articulate friends? We’re about to find out.
How should the Navy adapt to meet new security challenge? CSBA’s Bryan Clark and the Hudson Institute’s Bryan McGrath discuss their recent appearance before the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces on In Depth with Francis Rose.
With a major joint exercise in the Philippines underway, liberty is all but secured for the more than 6,000 troops involved.
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