The Bush Administration has requested $611 billion for national defense in fiscal year 2009. This includes $541 billion for the “base” defense budget — $518 billion for the Department of…
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U.S. Defense Budget: Options and Choices for the Long Haul
August 21, 2008 • By Steven Kosiak • Studies
The Challenges to U.S. National Security
August 21, 2008 • By Andrew F. Krepinevich, Robert Martinage, and Robert Work • Studies
The United States is currently in a situation comparable to the one it confronted in the early days of the Cold War, when US civilian and military leaders were faced…
Defense Investment Strategies in an Uncertain World
August 21, 2008 • By Andrew F. Krepinevich • Studies
This report addresses the critical issue of allocating resources to deal with current and future discontinuities in the security environment. For the Defense Department, strategy is fundamentally about making choices…
U.S. Combat Training, Operational Art and Strategic Competence
August 21, 2008 • By Barry Watts • Studies
Starting with the establishment of the US Navy’s Fighter Weapons School (Topgun) in late 1968, the American military Services began committing themselves to longterm, sustained investments in realistic combat training…
Range, Persistence, Stealth and Networking: The Case for a Carrier-Based Unmanned Combat Air System
June 18, 2008 • By Tom Ehrhard and Robert Work • Studies
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.