How Iran, China and Afghanistan will Shape Future Defense
Todd Harrison joins an expert roundtable to discuss how Iran, China and Afghanistan will shape future US defense needs.
Todd Harrison joins an expert roundtable to discuss how Iran, China and Afghanistan will shape future US defense needs.
Todd Harrison explains what the budget deal Congress passed in early December 2013 means for the Pentagon.
/../Chinese defense spending has increased from an estimated $45 to $60-billion annually in 2003 to $115 to $200 billion today, said Jim Thomas, vice president and director of studies, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
Why don’t we make the bad guys bleed money for a change? That’s the strategic insight that helped us win the Cold War, and it seems especially timely today as the nation wobbles back – we hope – from the brink of yet another budget crisis.
Capitol Hill’s budget deal is good news for the Pentagon.
No real US strategy exists right now for dealing with China, even as the country challenges the territorial status quo of nearby Asian waters, several experts said Wednesday.