Publications
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The Fiscal Year 2013 Defense Budget: Continuity or Change?
DoD preview of the budget left few surprises for the actual budget release. What is more interesting in this budget request are the major changes that were not made—the dogs that didn’t bark
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Strategy in a Year of Fiscal Uncertainty
Defense strategy is about choices. In peacetime, strategy is often expressed in the budget as choices among different types of weapon systems and force structure. Bernard Brodie, writing in a 1959 RAND report, noted, “We do not have and probably never will have enough money to buy all the things we could effectively use for our defense. The choices we have to make would be difficult and painful even if our military budget were twice what it is today.” He went on to write, “In
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Backgrounder: Operating from Range to Defeat Iran’s Anti-Access and Area-Denial Threats
The Obama administration has released new strategic guidance for the Department of Defense (DoD) that announces its intent to “rebalance toward the Asia-Pacific region” and maintain the capability to “project power despite anti-access and area-denial challenges.” As the U.S. military assesses planning and resource initiatives required to support these objectives, it should not forget the need to address Iran’s emerging anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) strategy and the threat that it represents to the peace and stability of the Persian Gulf.
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Five Facts About Defense and Sequestration
1. Defense Funding Under Sequestration Would Fall to FY 2007 Levels 2. War Funding Is Exempt from Budget Caps...
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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.
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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