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Special Operations Forces: Future Challenges and Opportunities
Presentation slides from Reorienting US Military Services Conference 11/18/2008
An Army at Crossroads
Presentation slides from Reorienting US Military Services Conference 11/18/2008
Fleet Marine Forces for the 21st Century
Presentation slides from Reorienting US Military Services Conference 11/18/2008
Special Operation Forces: Future Challenges and Opportunities
This report addresses the expansion and growing role of US Special Operations Forces. 11/17/2008
An Army At The Crossroads
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. 11/17/2008
The US Marine Corps: Fleet Marine Forces for the 21st Century
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. 11/17/2008
The US Defense Industrial Base: Past, Present and Future
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. 10/15/2008
Military Manpower for the Long Haul
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. 10/15/2008
Integrating Disruptive Technologies in DoD
09/04/2008 
The Challenges to U.S. National Security
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. 08/21/2008 
Defense Investment Strategies in an Uncertain World
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. 08/21/2008 
U.S. Combat Training, Operational Art, and Strategic Competence
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. 08/21/2008 
U.S. Defense Budget -- Options and Choices for the Long Haul
This report overviews the budget environment and explores a range of options to make the Services’ plans more affordable. 08/21/2008 
Future Security Environment Presentation
Presentation slides from August 21, 2008 Strategy for the Long Haul initiative launch. 08/21/2008 
Investment Strategies Presentation
Presentation slides from August 21, 2008 Strategy for the Long Haul initiative launch. 08/21/2008 
Strategic Competence Presentation
Presentation slides from August 21, 2008 Strategy for the Long Haul initiative launch. 08/21/2008 
Strategy for the Long Haul Conference Audio
(1) Welcome: Dave McCurdy, CSBA Board Chairman. 08/22/2008
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Strategy for the Long HaulTimed to be completed for the next administration’s transition team, CSBA’s Strategy for the Long Haul moves beyond generalities to provide specific recommendations rooted in solid contingency planning. CSBA will provide the new administration with 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 next 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 administration’s 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 next 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: 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.
Our Team CSBA experts have extensive experience in military and government affairs with a demonstrated record on producing scholarly diagnostic analyses and assessments.
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