One of the first casualties was the Crusader artillery program, which was canceled after the Pentagon spent more than $2 billion on it. Then there was the Comanche helicopter debacle, which got the ax after $8 billion. More than twice that amount had been sunk into the Army’s Future Combat System, but that program got killed, too.
President Obama’s fourth secretary of defense soon will be taking the reins at the Pentagon where discontent has been brewing over spending cuts, expanding missions and the growing realization that the generals’ stop-the-sequester campaign has been politically ineffective.
The Pentagon has struggled for nearly 20 years to produce financial records that the government and outside groups can accurately audit, and appears to be unable to meet a goal of being fully auditable by September 2017.
On November 18, 2014, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments hosted a congressional discussion sponsored by Senator Tammy Baldwin and Representative Reid Ribble to discuss a new operational concept to guide evolution of the U.S. surface force.
Someone shoots a cruise missile at you. How far away would you like to stop it: over 200 miles out or less than 35?
The U.S. Navy needs to embrace a more offensive surface warfare strategy which finds additional uses for long-range weapons and missiles, adds lasers and electromagnetic rail guns when available, according to a new study.
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