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Dissuasion Strategy
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By Andrew Krepinevich and Robert Martinage

05/06/2008
alliances, china, competitive/grand strategies, dod strategy and policy


CSBA New Report on GWOT
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By Robert Martinage

The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments has released a new report, “The Global War on Terrorism: An Assessment,” authored by Senior Fellow Robert C. Martinage.The report concludes that the United States reached a high-water mark in the war on terrorism in 2003. At that time, the Taliban had been overthrown and al Qaeda stripped of its sanctuary in Afghanistan, ten of al Qaeda’s senior-most leaders had been captured or killed, dozens of jihadi cells had been rolled up, and several partner countries had significantly improved their counterterrorism capabilities.

02/25/2008
homeland security, radical islamism


Report Raises Questions About Costs and Effectiveness of Space-Based Weapons
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By Steven Kosiak

The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments has released a new report “Arming the Heavens: A Preliminary Assessment of the Potential Cost and Cost-Effectiveness of Space-Based Weapons” authored by Steven Kosiak, CSBA’s Vice President for Budget Studies.

11/01/2007
critical technologies, defense budget by title, nuclear forces, proliferation, select weapons systems, systems/force structure


CSBA Questions DoD's Substantial Investment in MRAP
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By Natalya Anfilofyeva

The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments today released Of IEDs and MRAPs: Force Protection in Complex Irregular Operations, by Andrew F. Krepinevich, President, and Dakota L. Wood, Senior Fellow. This analysis reviews the current effort by the Defense Department to acquire and field thousands of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) class vehicles, and to do so on a crash program basis, in support of US forces in Iraq.

10/17/2007
army, critical technologies, defense industry, iraq, military operations, personnel and readiness, select weapons systems, systems/force structure, usmc


CSBA Issues New Bioterror Report
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By Natalya Anfilofyeva

CSBA releases new Report "Avoiding the Plague: an Assessment of U.S. Plans and Funding for Countering Bioterrorism" by Steven Kosiak

05/09/2007
defense budget by title, homeland security, federal budget


CSBA Announces Two New Board Members
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By Natalya Anfilofyeva

CSBA Announes TwoNew Board Members

01/18/2007


CSBA Releases New Report: Thinking About Seabasing: All Ahead, Slow
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By Natalya Anfilofyeva

The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments has released Thinking About Seabasing: All Ahead, Slow by Senior Analyst Robert Work

10/19/2006
critical technologies, nuclear forces, personnel and readiness, proliferation"


CSBA Releases New Report: Spending on US Nuclear Forces
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By Natalya Anfilofyeva

The report analyzes options the United States might pursue over the next several decades to modernize its nuclear offensive strategic forces.

09/14/2006
critical technologies, nuclear forces, personnel and readiness, proliferation"


CSBA and Lieberman Host Capacity Crowd On Iraq Strategy
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By Alise Frye

This press release highlights the important discussion held December 6th, 2005 between Senator Joe Lieberman and CSBA Executive Director Andrew Krepinevich on how to win the war in Iraq.

12/06/2005
congressional action, iraq


CSBA Announces McCurdy as Board Chairman
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By Alise Frye

Press release announcing the election of Congressman Dave McCurdy as CSBA Board of Directors Chairman.

07/27/2005


CSBA Releases Report on Controversial Littoral Combat Ship
Press Release By Alise Frye

Press release announcing the availability of Naval Transformation and the Littoral Combat Ship.

02/18/20004
navy, transformation, littoral combat ship


CSBA Releases Operation Iraqi Freedom
Press Release By Alise Frye

Press release announcing "Operation Iraqi Freedom: A First Blush Assessment."

09/16/2003
Iraq, Strategy, war, conflict, terrorism


CSBA Releases 20th Annual Defense Budget Analysis
Press Release By Alise Frye

Today’s release of Steven M. Kosiak’s Analysis of the FY 2004 Defense Budget Request marks the 20th anniversary of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment’s unparalleled efforts in defense budget analysis.

04/24/2003
defense budget


CSBA Releases Paper on Iraq War Policy
Press Release By Alise Frye

Press release describing the latest CSBA report: "Preemption in Iraq: Rationale, Risks, and Requirements."

02/04/2003
Iraq, war, preemption


CSBA Releases Defining Transformation Report
Press Release By Alise Frye

CSBA announces the release of the seminal 1992 report, "The Military-Technical Revolution: A Preliminary Assessment."

10/03/2002
Military-Technical Revolution, Krepinevich, RMA


CSBA Releases Report on Anti-Access and Theater Bases
Press Release By Alise Frye

CSBA released today a report with important implications for fighting future wars overseas.

09/24/2002
Bowie, air bases, anti-access threats


CSBA Hires Barry Watts as Senior Fellow
Press Release By Alise Frye

CSBA is pleased to announce the addition of Barry Watts as a Senior Fellow to its team of top researchers and analysts.

08/26/2002
Barry Watts


CSBA Releases Report on the Nuclear Posture Review
Press Release By Alise Frye

The report notes that, in the wake of the geopolitical and military-technical revolutions, much of the conventional wisdom about strategic warfare that developed during the Cold War merits careful reconsideration.

08/15/2002
Nuclear Posture Review, Strategy, nuclear weapons


Pentagon Takes Major Step Toward Military Transformation
Press Release By Alise Frye

Cutting the Crusader is the best example yet of DoD's commitment to creating tomorrow's military.

05/08/2002
Crusader, Defense, Pentagon, Army


CSBA Releases Study on Naval Trasformation
Press Release By Alise Frye

CSBA releases The Challenge of Maritime Transformation: Is Bigger Better?, a study of US naval transformation by Bob Work

04/17/2002
Strategy


CSBA's Executive Director to Testify Before the Senate Armed Services Committee
Press Release By Alise Frye

Dr. Krepinevich will testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, April 9.

04/08/2002
transformation, defense, testimony


CSBA Releases In Depth Defense Budget Review for FY03
Press Release By Alise Frye

The report includes an overview of significant defense policy issues, such as funding for the war on terrorism, homeland security, and military transformation.

04/03/2002
defense budget, FY 2003, DoD, Steven Kosiak


CSBA Announces Important Staff Additions
Press Release By Alise Frye

CSBA has added 4 staff members

04/02/2002
staff changes, James Carafano, Kurt Guthe, Alise Frye, Bob Work


DoD Needs to Change Its Approach to Field Exercises and Experimentation
Press Release By Alise Frye

CSBA releases a new report, Lighting the Path Ahead: Field Exercises and Transformation, making the case that field exercises play a critical but undervalued role in military transformation and innovation.

02/25/2002
experimentation, DoD, field exercises, CSBA


Budget Experts Available for Commentary
Press Release By Laureen Andrews

With the upcoming release of the DoD budget, CSBA has experts available for analysis and commentary.

01/30/2002
budget experts, DoD budget


Promoting Efficiency in the Department of Defense
Press Release By Steve Kosiak

CSBA releases Promoting Efficiency in the Department of Defense: Keep Trying, But Be Realistic by Robert F. Hale

01/25/2002
efficiency, Defense Department, savings


The Transformation of Strategic-Strike Operations
Press Release By Andrew Krepinevich and Robert Martinage

CSBA's report recommended that the Nuclear Posture Review consider the merits of a new type of strategic triad. The findings of the NPR released this week track closely with CSBA's recommendation.

01/11/2002
Nuclear Posture Review, Quadrennial Defense Review, NPR, QDR, strategic-strike operations


QDR Offers Good Diagnosis, But Lacks Prescription
Press Release By Stacey Shepard

Dr. Andrew Krepinevich outlined his assessment of DoD's recently released Quadrennial Defense Review.

10/12/2001
QDR, Quadrennial Defense Review, strategy, defense policy


More Funding Needed for Weapons Procurement
Press Release By Stacey Shepard

CSBA released it latest report, Buying Tomorrow's Military: Options for Modernizing the US Defense Capital Stock, today.

05/15/2001
defense capital stock, defense industry, procurement, defense spending


Emerging Capabilities May Permit Fundamental Change in US Strategic Force Posture
Press Release By Stacey Shepard

In releasing their latest report today on The Transformation of Strategic-Strike Operations, Andrew Krepinevich and Robert Martinage present a thought-provoiking framework for considering how America's strategic forces might be reshaped to meet tomorrow's

03/21/2001
strategic strike, nuclear weapons, PGM, precision guided munitions, transformation


CSBA Releases Comprehensive Report on Space Militarization
Press Release By Stacey Shepard

CSBA released its latest report, The Military Use of Space: A Diagnostic Assessment, by Barry Watts, evaluating the current state of military competition in near-earth space and its expected evolution over the next quarter century.

03/08/2001
space militarization, military, space, Rumsfeld report, military use of space, Barry Watts


CSBA Proposes New Defense Strategy
Press Release By Stacey Shepard

CSBA proposes in its report, A Strategy for a Long Peace, a new defense strategy to respond to the changing security environment and to ensure the US maintains the military superiority to underwrite a long peace.

01/30/2001
military transformation, defense strategy, military strategy


CSBA Joins the Rumsfeld Commission in Highlighting Potential of Space Capabilities
Press Release By Stacey Shepard

CSBA released a summary version of The Military Use of Space: A Diagnostic Assessment that assesses how the competition in space might evolve over the next quarter century.

01/11/2001
space, militarization of space, military space, weaponization of space, satellites


Preparing for the Anti-Access Threat: Looking Beyond the 2MTW Posture
Press Release By Stacey Shepard

CSBA's seminar featuring the Services and campaign advisors provided a timely focus on the emerging challenge of access to future theaters of conflict.

09/27/2000
anti-access, QDR, Quadrennial Defense Review, Bush administration


Improved Readiness Will Involve More Than Raising The Defense Budget Topline
Press Release By Stacey Shepard

CSBA comments on today's congressional readiness testimony by the Joint Chiefs of Staff

09/27/2000
Armed Services, Joint Chiefs of Staff, military readiness


DoD Plans-Funding Mismatch Estimate Points to Need to Spend Smarter and Differently
Press Release By Stacey Shepard

CSBA responds to CBO's study on the Defense Department's plans-funding mismatch

09/14/2000
plans-funding mismatch, military spending


True Question on Military Readiness Is: Ready For What?
Press Release By Stacey Shepard

CSBA Executive Director Andrew Krepinevich shifts the focus of the debate on military readiness to the more salient question: “Ready for what?” in his September 1 Wall Street Journal Op-Ed.

09/01/2000
military readines


CSBA Claims Hart-Rudman Report Misses Opportunity to Chart New Security Strategy
Press Release By Stacey Shepard

Critique of U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century (Hart-Rudman Commission) Phase II Report

04/19/2000
Hart-Rudman, National Security Strategy


CSBA Claims Military Transformation Is Necessary Focus For Presidential Campaign
Press Release By Stacey Towles

Military Transformation should be part of the 2000 election campaigns

09/30/1999
RMA, military transformation


CSBA Says Rosy Surplus Numbers Unlikely To Yield Much More For Defense
Press Release By Stacey Towles

The surplus may improve prospects for defense spending in the future but won't be helpful in FY 2000

07/01/1999
budget surplus, defense, military spending


RMA and the Future of Land Forces: Era of Tank Primacy is Over
Press Release By Stacey Shepard

Press release on CSBA's predictions for the future of land forces

04/20/1999
RMA, Revolution in Military Affairs, land forces, Army, military transformation


CSBA Executive Director Testifies Before New Senate Committee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities
Press Release By Stacey Shepard

The purpose of Mr. Krepinevich's testimony was to provide an analysis of the most important national security threats facing the United States both now and in the future.

03/05/1999
emerging threats, national security threats, future warfare


Further Study Needed Before Changing Military Retirement
Press Release By Stacey Shepard

A press release highlighting Steven Kosiak's testimony on military pay and retirement issues before the HASC

02/25/1999
military retirement, military pension, military pay, House Armed Services Committee


FY99 Defense Budget Wrap Up
Press Release By Stacey Towles

press release on the final analysis of the defense budget for FY 1999

11/18/1998
military readiness


Modernization - Problem Is Not Budgetary In Nature - It Is Strategic
Press Release By Stacey Towles

press release on Andrew Krepinevich's testimony on defense modernization

10/09/1998
military modernization, military readiness, R&D, Research and development


CSBA Focuses On The Readiness Question - How To Balance The Concerns Of Today With The Issues Of Tomorrow?
Press Release By Stacey Shepard

Press release discussing the readiness question of the US military

09/24/1998
Personnel & Readiness, military readiness


General Close Addresses Challenges And Opportunities Of Implementation
Press Release By Stacey Towles

General Close discussed the role of experimentation in implementing Joint Vision 2010.

09/23/1998
military experimentation, Joint Vision 2010, military transformation


CSBA Analysis Of National Defense Panel Report: A Major Step In The Right Direction
Press Release By Stacey Shepard

Citing support for a transformation strategy and a program of funding for innovation and experimentation, CSBA analysis concludes that, " the NDP offers a real strategic alternative to the QDR."

12/01/1997
Strategy, National Defense Panel, NDP


CSBA Staff Available To Comment On The Release Of The Quadrennial Defense Review
Press Release By Natalia Davidson

CSBA staff is prepared to comment on the QDR

05/05/1997
Quadrennial Defense Review, QDR


Clinton Administration’s FY 1997 Budget For National Defense
Press Release By Stacey Shepard

Adjusted for the effects of lower inflation estimates over the next six years, the administration's new FY 1997-FY 2002 plan would provide some $30.5 billion more for defense than last year's plan over the same period.

03/22/1996
defense budget request, FY 1997 budget request, defense spending


A Quick Look At The Clinton Administration’s FY 1997 Defense Budget Request
Press Release By Stacey Shepard

The Clinton Administration today announced that it would request $242.6 billion in budget authority for DoD in fiscal year 1997.

03/01/1996
defense budget request, FY 1997 defense budget, defense spending


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