DoD preview of the budget left few surprises for the actual budget release. What is more interesting in this budget request are the major changes that were not made—the dogs that didn’t bark
Briefs
The Fiscal Year 2013 Defense Budget: Continuity or Change?
February 13, 2012 • By Todd Harrison • Briefs
$TRATEGY IN A YEAR OF FISCAL UNCERTAINTY
February 7, 2012 • By Todd Harrison • Briefs
Defense strategy is about choices. In peacetime, strategy is often expressed in the budget as choices among different types of weapon systems and force structure. Bernard Brodie, writing in a…
Backgrounder: Operating from Range to Defeat Iran’s Anti-Access and Area-Denial Threats
January 20, 2012 • By Mark Gunzinger • Briefs
The Obama administration has released new strategic guidance for the Department of Defense (DoD) that announces its intent to “rebalance toward the Asia-Pacific region” and maintain the capability to “project…
Five Facts About Defense and Sequestration
November 2, 2011 • By Todd Harrison • Briefs
1. Defense Funding Under Sequestration Would Fall to FY 2007 Levels
2. War Funding Is Exempt from Budget Caps
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Changing the Business of Defense
October 18, 2011 • By Todd Harrison and Evan B. Montgomery • Briefs
DoD faces a fundamental choice in how it prepares to trim its budget under such a high degree of uncertainty. It can change the way it does business or change the business it does. Under the deepest cuts proposed, it may well need to do both.