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In Depth: Federal News Radio
  • August 21, 2013
  • Federal News Radio

Even during sequestration the Defense Department doesn’t plan to sacrifice its global presence. But it is considering new ways to administer the bureaucracy that global reach requires. Some of the military’s combatant commands might disappear altogether, and some might have their geographical boundaries redrawn. For now, it’s all speculation, and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says it’ll only be necessary if sequestration stays in place for the full ten years. Yet, it is one of the ideas DoD is examining in the wake of Hagel’s recent Strategic Choices and Management Review.

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Surrounded: How the U.S. Is Encircling China with Military Bases
  • August 20, 2013
  • Foreign Policy

The refurbished airfields also hearken back to the Cold War era, when American units were constantly rotated in and out of Europe to keep the Soviets at bay. To counter a new foe, the Air Force will continuously deploy units based in the United States and the northern Pacific to a string of airfields in Southeast Asia.

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Reshaping for Tomorrow
  • August 20, 2013
  • Air Force Magazine

The US military services need to take advantage of the upcoming Quadrennial Defense Review to carve out new, forward-looking missions or risk becoming simply smaller—and increasingly irrelevant—versions of themselves, according to Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments Senior Fellow Mark Gunzinger.

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Shaping America’s Future Military – Toward a New Force Planning Construct
  • August 19, 2013
  • C-Span

C-Span’s full coverage of Mark Gunzinger’s presentation at the Mitchell Institute for Airpower Studies at the Air Force Association on the future of America’s Military, including how commanders in the field and in Washington should look at strategic and budgetary planning.

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China Precision Strike
  • August 15, 2013
  • Washington Times

China’s military is building conventional precision-guided missiles in an effort to become Asia’s “hegemon” and force the U.S. military to operate thousands of miles from China’s coasts, according to a study made public this week.