Tom Ehrhard

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Author Bibliography for Tom Ehrhard

An Air Force Strategy for the Long Haul

September 17, 2009 • By Tom Ehrhard

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.

Near-Term Prospects for Battlefield Directed Energy

January 5, 2009 • By Tom Ehrhard, Andrew F. Krepinevich, and Barry Watts

For more than a decade, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) has closely followed emerging technologies that, integrated with new operational concepts and organizational structures, offer the potential…

Range, Persistence, Stealth and Networking: The Case for a Carrier-Based Unmanned Combat Air System

June 18, 2008 • By Tom Ehrhard and Robert Work

The US Navy is faced with an impending competitive shift that will demand that it rethink and reconsider some of the lessons learned during the past six-and-a-half decades when “carrier warfare” so defined US naval operations and thinking.

The Unmanned Combat Air System Carrier Demonstration Program: A New Dawn For Naval Aviation?

May 10, 2007 • By Tom Ehrhard and Robert Work

Aircraft carriers are one of America’s key power-projection systems. To ensure their continued operational effectiveness and survivability in the future security environment, they need to be equipped with new air…