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The 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review: An Initial Assessment
02/01/2010 This CSBA Backgrounder provides an initial assessment of the QDR’s strategy and force planning dimensions.
Defense Planning for the Long Haul: Scenarios, Operational Concepts, and the Future Security Environment
01/11/2010 This report translates the principal strategic challenges the United States is likely to confront into a set of plausible scenarios.
Release of Defense Planning for the Long Haul Report
01/11/2010 CSBA’s newest release, Defense Planning for the Long Haul: Scenarios, Operational Concepts, and the Future Security Environment, translates the principal strategic challenges the United States is likely to confront into a set of plausible scenarios. The report comes just weeks in advance of the Defense Department’s submission of the Quadrennial Defense Review to Congress in early February.
The War in Afghanistan in Strategic Context
11/17/2009 prepared statement for testimony before U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation
US Nuclear Forces: Meeting the Challenge of a Proliferated World
10/02/2009 This report seeks to provide the basis for an informed and constructive debate over the role of nuclear weapons in the overall US defense posture. To this end, the principal focus is on identifying the existing and emerging security environment as it pertains to nuclear weapons. The report also offers some recommendations on how the United States might best respond to the challenges posed by nuclear proliferation, and, hopefully, create a more secure global environment.
An Air Force Strategy for the Long Haul
09/17/2009 This monograph discusses the current state of the United States Air Force and how it can better align its institutional identity and force posture to the future security environment. It offers a fiscally-constrained menu of recommendations for how that realignment might be realized over the next twenty years, with a larger force posture in mind.
Regaining Strategic Competence
09/01/2009 The central argument of this report is that, in light of the complex and intensifying security challenges the United States now faces, the nation can no longer afford poor strategic performance. The time to reverse the decline in US strategic competence is long overdue. The first task is for American political and military leaders to develop a clearer understanding of what strategy actually is, and what cognitive skills are necessary to craft and implement good strategies.
Impact of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan on the US Military’s Plans, Programs, and Budgets
08/12/2009 This report assesses the effect that the operations in these two theaters have had on the plans, programs, and budgets of the US military, specifically those of the US Army. It makes projections for the future costs of the operations in these two theaters.
Reshaping America's Alliances for the Long Haul
06/01/2009 This report considers whether America’s current alliances are adequate or appropriate for helping the US meet its security challenges and the ways in which the current alliance portfolio should be revised to address future challenges.
Nuclear Terrorism: Assessing the Threat, Developing a Response
04/22/2009 This report examines tthe issue of nuclear terrorism and attempts to answer the following questions: How real is the risk that a terrorist group could acquire or construct a functional nuclear device, and how might it attempt to do so? Which group poses the greatest threat in this regard,how has that threat changed over time, and is it currently growing or abating? What existing and prospective measures will prove most effective in preventing terrorists from obtaining a nuclear weapon, stopping them from delivering and detonating a weapon if prevention fails, and responding both at home and abroad in the event that an attack succeeds?
Assessment of Secretary Gates' Decisions with CSBA's Defense Program Outlined in the "Strategy for the Long Haul"
04/10/2009 On April 6, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced substantial changes to the defense program that bring it more in line with CSBA’s "Strategy for the Long Haul” series of monographs. The reports are the culmination of over two years of research and analysis by CSBA, and assess existing and emerging challenges to US security, defense resources, the military services and their programs, America’s alliance structure, and strategy. This is a comparison of CSBA’s recommendations with the decisions made by Secretary Gates.
The Future of U.S. Ground Forces
03/26/2009 Testimony Before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee Airland Subcommittee
Charting A Course
02/17/2009 presentation slides from congressional briefing
The US Navy: Charting a Course for Tomorrow's Fleet
02/17/2009 In this report, Work assesses the adequacy and affordability of current US Navy plans in light of trends in naval warfare, expected future budget environments and the likely operational demands associated with the enduring long-term strategic challenges. The report recommends changes to the current Navy plans in order to envision a future fleet that is more capable and affordable. 
The US Marine Corps: Fleet Marine Forces for the 21st Century
11/17/2008 The report makes recommendations for Marine Corps strategic,operational and organizational concept development that will help position the Marines to maximize their utility and value as soldiers of the sea, able to successfully support US national security objectives in an increasingly complex and dangerous world. Special Operations Forces: Future Challenges and Opportunities
11/17/2008
Special Operations Forces: Future Challenges and Opportunities
Special Operations Forces: Future Challenges and Opportunities
11/18/2008 Presentation slides from Reorienting US Military Services Conference 
An Army at Crossroads
11/18/2008 Presentation slides from Reorienting US Military Services Conference 
Fleet Marine Forces for the 21st Century
11/18/2008 Presentation slides from Reorienting US Military Services Conference An Army at the Crossroads
11/17/2008
An Army at the Crossroads 
An Army At The Crossroads
11/17/2008 The report makes recommendations on achieving a more balanced force—one that is not only balanced between the demands of irregular and conventional operations, but also one that is more evenly weighted between the Active and Reserve Components. 
Special Operation Forces: Future Challenges and Opportunities
11/17/2008 This report addresses the expansion and growing role of US Special Operations Forces. Fleet Marine Forces for the 21st Century
11/17/2008
Fleet Marine Forces for the 21st Century 
Military Manpower for the Long Haul
10/15/2008 This report discusses the requirements and challenges confronting military manpower in coming years. It considers a range of proposals for improving recruitment and retention efforts, including both relatively narrow traditional options and new, broader approaches. 
The US Defense Industrial Base: Past, Present and Future
10/15/2008 The report reviews the industry’s performance since World War II; considers the role of the federal government in facilitating a more efficient and effective structure; and raises the question of what may need to be done to ensure that the industrial base can meet the requirements of the US military Services in coming decades. 
Integrating Disruptive Technologies in DoD
09/04/2008
Defense Investment Strategies
08/22/2008
Defense Investment Strategies Strategy for the Long Haul: Welcome
08/22/2008
Strategy for the Long Haul: Welcome Challenges to US National Security
08/22/2008
Challenges to US National Security Training, Operational Art, and Strategic Competence
08/22/2008
Training, Operational Art, and Strategic Competence 
U.S. Combat Training, Operational Art, and Strategic Competence
08/21/2008 This report assesses the need for an overhaul of training and education of America’s service personnel and the importance of strategic thinking in senior leaders. 
Defense Investment Strategies in an Uncertain World
08/21/2008 This report provides a framework for thinking about investment strategies at a time when the United States is at war, and facing the need to transform its military owing to the likelihood of significant shifts in the character of the military competition. 
The Challenges to U.S. National Security
08/21/2008 This report translates the principal challenges to US security into a representative set of contingencies in order to determine what resources will be required, and how they should be apportioned among forces and capabilities. 
U.S. Defense Budget -- Options and Choices for the Long Haul
08/21/2008 This report overviews the budget environment and explores a range of options to make the Services’ plans more affordable. 
Future Security Environment Presentation
08/21/2008 Presentation slides from August 21, 2008 Strategy for the Long Haul initiative launch. 
Investment Strategies Presentation
08/21/2008 Presentation slides from August 21, 2008 Strategy for the Long Haul initiative launch. 
Strategic Competence Presentation
08/21/2008 Presentation slides from August 21, 2008 Strategy for the Long Haul initiative launch. |
Strategy for the Long HaulCSBA’s Strategy for the Long Haul moves beyond generalities to provide the new Administration with specific recommendations rooted in solid contingency planning and an independent, comprehensive defense strategy to jump-start the next Quadrennial Defense Review in 2009. Four defense reviews of US military strategy, capabilities and forces since 1993 have sought to reorient the US military to address new and enduring challenges to international peace and stability. The United States now finds itself at war with radical Islamism, and facing an increasingly assertive China and an emerging “nuclear arc of instability” stretching from the Persian Gulf to the Sea of Japan. The new administration needs a clear understanding of these challenges, and how they differ from the “traditional” threats to security that drove previous defense reviews.     
Project Goal The principal goal is to shape and inform the next defense strategy review. To this end, CSBA seeks to provide a coherent and comprehensive analytic foundation for thinking about key defense strategy, policy, resource, infrastructure, and program issues to assist the new administration in its 2009 QDR planning process and to help Congress and the strategic studies community evaluate the QDR once completed. CSBA will: Assess the future security environment and diagnose the principal challenges confronting the United States Propose a strategy to address these challenges, using a representative set of planning contingencies Explore budget paths for programs and forces Assess human and material resources, and education and training requirements Examine alternatives to better organize for effective national security Project Publications Separate monographs address: Assessment of Secretary Gates’ Decisions with CSBA’s Defense Program Outlined in the “Strategy for the Long Haul” On April 6, 2009 Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced substantial changes to the defense program that bring it more in line with CSBA’s “Strategy for the Long Haul” series of monographs. [Comparison of CSBA’s recommendations with the decisions made by Secretary Gates.] The Challenges to US National Security Translates the principal challenges to US security into a representative set of contingencies in order to determine what resources will be required, and how they should be apportioned among forces and capabilities. US Military Power and Concepts of Operation Provides the connective tissue between the threats to US security and the capabilities and force elements needed to address the new challenges confronting the nation. The Defense Budget Overviews the budget environment and explores a range of options to make the Services’ plans more affordable. The Defense Industrial Base Addresses the US defense industry’s role as a strategic asset, and how it can best serve in that role. Manpower Examines recruitment and retention of quality people in sufficient numbers at an acceptable cost. Training, Operational Art, and Strategic Competence Assesses the need for an overhaul of training and education of America’s service personnel and the importance of strategic thinking in senior leaders. Restructuring the US Alliance Portfolio Considers the nature and type of alliances the United States needs in order to meet existing and emerging security challenges. Ground Forces Explores how the US Army and Marine Corps might best be organized, structured, modernized, and postured to meet existing and emerging challenges to US security. Special Forces Addresses the expansion and growing role of US Special Forces. Maritime Forces Addresses how US maritime forces might best be organized, structured, modernized, and postured to meet existing and emerging challenges to US Security. Air and Space Forces Explores how Air and Space Forces might best be organized, structured, modernized, and postured to meet existing and emerging challenges to US Security. Strategic Forces Examines the circumstances under which nuclear strategy and force posture decisions must be made today. Modernization Strategies Explores potential modernization strategies that can best support the US defense posture in an era of great geopolitical uncertainty and rapid technological change. Organizing for National Security Assesses how the United States Government can best organize itself to ensure effective strategic planning and execution of strategy. A Grand Strategy for the United States Synthesizes the findings and insights of the study series.
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