Publications
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Search Publications
Briefs
Changing the Business of Defense
DoD faces a fundamental choice in how it prepares to trim its budget under such a high degree of uncertainty. It can change the way it does business or change the business it does. Under the deepest cuts proposed, it may well need to do both.
Studies
Sustaining Critical Sectors of the U.S. Defense Industrial Base
This monograph focuses on two main questions concerning what is most accurately described as the “military-industrial-Congressional” complex
Testimonies
The Future of National Defense and the U.S. Military Ten Years After 9/11
Chairman McKeon, Ranking Member Smith, and Members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me to testify today. On September 11, 2001, I was working in the Pentagon as part of a small team drafting the 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review. The 9/11 attacks were a watershed event for me personally and for the Department of Defense. The attacks immediately reduced the peacetime bureaucratic processes of the day, including the QDR, to trivialities, as the Department – and the Nation – unified in their intent to vanquish the Islamist terrorists who perpetrated the attacks and to prevent future attacks on the United States.
Briefs
Defense Funding in the Budget Control Act of 2011
While the Budget Control Act of 2011 resolves the debt ceiling issue through 2012, it leaves many budget issues unresolved. The future of the defense budget remains uncertain
Testimonies
Department of Defense Investment in Technology and Capability to Meet Emerging Threats
In my testimony today, I will describe some of major security challenges the United States is likely to face in the next two decades. I will then outline potential discontinuities in future warfare that should be considered when making future investment decisions. Building on those discontinuities, I will discuss their broad implications for U.S. defense planning. Finally, I will suggest capability areas that appear to be potential growth opportunities for investment given these discontinuities and their implications
Studies
Analysis of the FY2012 Defense Budget
For the first time in more than a decade, both the base budget and war budget are declining, but a smaller, less costly force does not necessarily equate to a less effective or less capable military