In the News

Budget Conferees Face Huge Rift Between Defense Spending Plans and Caps

  • October 22, 2013
  • Congressional Quarterly

An upcoming House-Senate budget conference faces a daunting task in trying to find an alternative to a $20 billion cut in national defense spending that’s set to occur in January. But that mission may face better odds than appropriators would in trying to roll back their outsize defense spending blueprints for fiscal 2014 to meet spending caps/…/

Press Releases

Bryan Clark Joins CSBA as Senior Fellow

  • October 21, 2013

The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments is pleased to welcome Bryan Clark as Senior Fellow on the center’s Strategic Studies team.

In the News

Army Warns It Could Have Trouble Handling Single War

  • October 17, 2013
  • USA Today

Budget reductions could render the Army at “high risk to meet even one major war,” according to documents obtained by USA TODAY, a warning the Army is sounding because it sees another war as inevitable before long.

In the News

Shutdown Could Cost DoD Billions of Dollars

  • October 13, 2013
  • Defense News

The US government shutdown could cost the Defense Department billions of dollars over the long term, but it is too early to tabulate the full impact, experts say.

Analysis

Pentagon’s Future Goes from Bad to Worse in Fiscal 2014

  • October 9, 2013
  • Pentagon Solutions * Federal News Radio

In this radio interview on the Federal News Radio, Todd Harrison offers a defense budget forecast for fiscal 2014 and discusses the near-term vs long term-dichotomy that the Pentagon faces as it articulates a strategy for dealing with the declining budgets.

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