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Statement by Bryan Clark
Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
The Navy kicked off a tabletop wargaming exercise last week at the Center for Naval Analyses that will identify key enablers the force will need to fight in various scenarios, according to an official. Rear Adm. Jesse Wilson, assessment division director in the office of the chief of naval operations (N81), said March 8 during a House Armed Services seapower and projection forces subcommittee hearing the exercise began March 7 and includes representatives from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary..
Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments said — using the seizure of Crimea as an example — sending forces in later “would look like we’re trying to change the facts on the ground.” This makes the response look like an act of aggression. “We’re going to have to prevent those things [from happening] in the first place,” he said
Predictable opposition scenarios, such as a Chinese invasion of Taiwan or Russian incursions into the Baltics, could happen so quickly that the United States would be forced to attack and dislodge units as a first response, said Bryan Clark, a senior fellow for the Washington-based Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.