Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the U.S. military has been able to project power overseas ..
Studies
Outside-In: Operating from Range to Defeat Iran’s Anti-Access and Area-Denial Threats
January 17, 2012 • By Mark Gunzinger and Christopher Dougherty • Studies
Sustaining Critical Sectors of the U.S. Defense Industrial Base
September 20, 2011 • By Barry Watts and Todd Harrison • Studies
This monograph focuses on two main questions concerning what is most accurately described as the “military-industrial-Congressional” complex
Analysis of the FY2012 Defense Budget
July 15, 2011 • By Todd Harrison • Studies
For the first time in more than a decade, both the base budget and war budget are declining, but a smaller, less costly force does not necessarily equate to a less effective or less capable military
The Maturing Revolution in Military Affairs
June 2, 2011 • By Barry Watts • Studies
In 1992, the Office of Net Assessment (ONA), Office of the Secretary of Defense, began circulating an assessment of a prospective late-twentieth-century military-technical revolution (MTR). Soviet military theorists had been…
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…