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Outside-In: Operating from Range to Defeat Iran’s Anti-Access and Area-Denial Threats

January 17, 2012 • By Mark Gunzinger and Christopher Dougherty

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the U.S. military has been able to project power overseas ..

Sustaining Critical Sectors of the U.S. Defense Industrial Base

September 20, 2011 • By Barry Watts and Todd Harrison

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

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

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

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…