The Obama Administration today unveiled its defense budget request for FY 2012, which totals $553 billion in discretionary funding for the peacetime costs of the Department of Defense (DoD) and…
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FY 2012 Base Defense Budget Represents a Turning Point
February 14, 2011 • By Todd Harrison • Briefs
THE FY 2012 DEFENSE BUDGET: What to Expect in an Age of Austerity
February 10, 2011 • By Todd Harrison • Briefs
The Obama Administration will soon release its Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 budget request. This request comes as Congress is still debating the FY 2011 budget and the Department of Defense…
China’s Active Defense Strategy and Its Implications
January 28, 2011 • By Jim Thomas • Testimony
The South China Sea is a region of growing strategic interest for many countries in the world, including the United States. More than one-third of the world’s seaborne trade flows through its contested waters.
The Fiscal Commission and Defense
November 23, 2010 • By Todd Harrison • Briefs
With a federal budget deficit that exceeded $1.3 trillion in FY 2010 and a rapidly mounting national debt, the findings of the Fiscal Commission established to identify ways to balance…
Understanding America’s Contested Primacy
October 21, 2010 • By Eric Edelman • Studies
In November 2008, the National Intelligence Council released Global Trends 2025 which argued that “the international system–as constructed following the Second World War–will be almost unrecognizable by 2025 owing to the rise of emerging powers, a globalizing economy, a historic transfer of relative wealth and economic power from West to East, and the growing influence of non-state actors…