Introduction Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to share my views on the challenges and opportunities facing U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF).1 SOF have figured prominently…
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Special Operations Forces: Challenges and Opportunities
March 3, 2009 • By Robert Martinage • Testimony
The US Navy: Charting a Course for Tomorrow’s Fleet
February 17, 2009 • By Robert Work • Studies
This paper assesses the adequacy and affordability of current US Navy plans in light of current trends in naval warfare, expected future budget environments, and, most importantly, the likely operational…
Near-Term Prospects for Battlefield Directed Energy
January 5, 2009 • By Tom Ehrhard, Andrew F. Krepinevich, and Barry Watts • Briefs
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…
The Case for Long-Range Strike: 21st Century Scenarios
December 31, 2008 • By Barry Watts • Studies
Since 2005, US Air Force (USAF) leaders have committed themselves to fielding a new land-based, penetrating, long-range strike system (LRSS) by 2018. In March 2008, then USAF secretary Mike Wynne…
An Army at the Crossroads
December 17, 2008 • By Andrew F. Krepinevich • Studies
Throughout the twentieth century, the United States Army was oriented primarily on waging conventional warfare against a similarly armed great power, first the German Army during the World Wars and…