Publications

For nearly two decades, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) has provided consistent, high-quality, and innovative research on defense strategy, budgets, and the security environment. CSBA experts have worked to analyze U.S. defense strategy, force structure and planning, and defense budgets in the effort to reconcile these interrelated subjects. CSBA remains instrumental in guiding the nation’s most critical defense policy debates as a small, powerful group comprising experts with extensive experience in the field of national security—many of them military veterans and former senior level policy makers from the Department of Defense, State Department, and the National Security Council—supported by a dedicated staff of accomplished executives and scholars.

Congressional Steel Caucus Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) and Vice Chairman Pete Visclosky (D-IN) hosted the Steel Caucus annual hearing, “America Rebounding: Steel in 2017 and Beyond.” The purpose of the hearing was to provide Members with the opportunity to ask questions and hear directly from steel industry stakeholders on the role steel is likely to play in national infrastructure projects under discussion, as well as other policies and developments impacting the success of the domestic steel industry. 

Every grand strategy rests on a set of critical assumptions about how the world works.  Today, the assumptions underpinning American grand strategy are becoming more contested and uncertain than at any time in a generation. 

If strategy is the calculated relation of means to ends, then today America is careening toward strategic insolvency. Following the Cold War, the United States possessed unrivaled military primacy, both globally and in all the world’s key strategic theaters. 

The decade and a half the United States has spent fighting the "long war" in the Middle East has yielded many tactical successes but left a lasting victory elusive. The inconclusive nature of these struggles has sapped support for the U.S. policy of shouldering the burden of providing security and stability in the region. 

Sooner or later, and probably within the next few months, the United States and its coalition partners will defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) militarily, by collapsing its control of key areas in Iraq and Syria.