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CSBA Offers Recommendations to Meet Long-Range Strike Shortfalls
September 14, 2010: CSBA released a new report, Sustaining America rsquo;s Strategic Advantage in Long-Range Strike at a congressional conference.
CSBA Senior Fellow Mark Gunzinger shared the report rsquo;s conclusions, including his assessment of the current long-range strike capability shortfalls, discussion of an alternative framework for evaluating the next long-range strike family of systems, and options for prioritizing DoD investments over time.
Gunzinger offered a set of recommendations to meet DoD rsquo;s long-range strike capability shortfalls. These recommendations include:
bull; Initiating a new Air Force program to procure up to one hundred optionally-manned penetrating bombers capable of operating against fixed and mobile targets in degraded C4ISR environments;
bull; Developing an air-refuelable naval UCAS with at least a 1,500 nautical mile combat radius that is survivable in the face of advanced air defense networks;
bull; Investing in a joint cruise missile that could be launched from long-range and short-range strike platforms and be capable of carrying either conventional or nuclear warheads;
bull; Developing a small inventory of conventional prompt global strike weapons for limited strikes against very-high-value targets requiring response times measured in hours; and
bull; Fielding an AEA platform to support long-range strike operations(report) (presentation slides).
CSBA Releases Analysis of the FY 2011 Defense Budget
June 29, 2010: CSBA hosted a press briefing on the release of its Analysis of the FY 2011 Defense Budget by Todd Harrison.
CSBA President Andrew Krepinevich discussed the potential security risks the US is likely to face in the future and the need to employ strategy to decide where to invest funds in a fiscally constrained environment.
CSBA Budget Studies Fellow Todd Harrison discussed the FY 2011 defense budget noting rather than making significant changes, this budget continues and consolidates the reforms and rebalancing initiated in the FY 2010 budget.
CSBA Releases AirSea Battle: A Point-of-Departure Operational Concept
May 18, 2010: The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments today released its latest report: AirSea Battle: A Point-of-Departure Operational Concept, by Jan van Tol with Mark Gunzinger, Andrew Krepinevich and Jim Thomas.
The report provides a detailed assessment of how potent anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) capabilities will likely make traditional US power projection operations increasingly risky and costly in the future. Using the Western Pacific Theater of Operations (WPTO) as the most stressing potential case, it explores how the United States and its allies could employ a candidate AirSea Battle operational concept to maintain a stable military balance in the Western Pacific.
(press release) (slides)
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September 30, 2010: CSBA Senior Fellow Todd Harrison will testify before the House Committee on Budget on Defense Department Initiatives (more info)(testimony text)
September 14, 2010: CSBA released a new report, Sustaining America rsquo;s Strategic Advantage in Long-Range Strike at a congressional conference.
CSBA Senior Fellow Mark Gunzinger shared the report rsquo;s conclusions, including his assessment of the current long-range strike capability shortfalls, discussion of an alternative framework for evaluating the next long-range strike family of systems, and options for prioritizing DoD investments over time to meet these shortfalls (report) (press release) (presentation slides).
July 20, 2010: Todd Harrison, Senior Fellow, Defense Budget Studies, testified before the Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs on quot;Rethinking our Defense Budget: Achieving National Security through Sustainable Spending quot; (testimony text) (hearing details).
June 15, 2010: CSBA released National Security Strategy in an Era of Growing Challenges and Resource Constraints, by Andrew Krepinevich.
This perspective argues that in order to resolve the mismatch between the defense program and resources available to sustain it, the Obama Administration needs to employ strategy in order to identify areas where the United States should scale back or divest itself of commitments, and where it will accept an increase in risk in protecting vital national interests. May 24, 2010: CSBA released The New Guns Versus Butter Debate, by Todd Harrison.
The perspective argues that when the defense budget ceases to grow above the rate of inflation, the Department will have to make difficult choices between competing priorities, such as personnel and equipment. This is the new guns versus butter debate mdash;a choice between taking care of people who serve or the equipment they need to fight and prevail in current and future conflicts.
April 23, 2010: CSBA released The Logic and Limitations of the Nuclear Posture Review, by Evan Montgomery. The perspective argues that the measures advocated in the NPR may not support its goal of slowing nuclear proliferation.
April 2, 2010: CSBA released two backgrounders:
bull; Meeting the Challenge of a Proliferated World, by Andrew Krepinevich, and
bull; Understanding the Threat of Nuclear Terrorism, by Evan Montgomery.
Timed to coincide with the Nuclear Posture Review that will shape long term US nuclear capabilities and strategy, the backgrounders summarize the key findings of two major reports in CSBA rsquo;s Strategy for the Long Haul Series.
ldquo;These Backgrounders address a number of issues that are likely to be raised in the upcoming Nuclear Posture Review, and will serve as a helpful guide for reporters, congressional staff, and others interested in assessing that document and its implications, rdquo; said CSBA Research Fellow Evan Montgomery.
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