The United States’ nuclear future will be more about proliferation than abolition unless minds in foreign capitals can be changed, according to a fellow at a leading Washington think tank.
New Delhi’s naval capabilities may never match its ambitions, but an A2/AD strategy would enable it to exercise significant influence in maritime affairs.
The words “bipartisan consensus” sound almost nostalgic in today’s zealously fractious Washington, D.C., but that is what happened Monday. Of course, not in Congress though, because that’s just too much to ask.
A Republican-led defense panel in Congress is set to vote on a proposed budget that ignores bipartisan pleas to protect the military’s long-term solvency by shrinking the workforce, closing bases and limiting troop pay raises/…/
Arguably most politically difficult on the think tanks’ list of cost cutting priorities is military compensation, including health care and retirement costs, a system that dates to the 1970s and has remained virtually unchanged except for acts of Congress to add further benefits/…/
In an extraordinary letter to defense lawmakers and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, experts from nine Washington think tanks on the left and the right call for fundamental fixes to the defense budgets that, left undone, “threaten the health and long-term viability of America’s volunteer military.”
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