Open Letter to Congress: Defense Reform Consensus
A striking bipartisan consensus exists today across the think tank community on the need for Pentagon and Congressional leaders to address the growing imbalances within the defense budget that threaten...
View ArticleShaping America’s Future Military: Toward a New Force Planning Construct
This year, DoD will conduct yet another Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) of its strategy, plans, and programs. Similar to strategic reviews completed since the end of the Cold War, the QDR is expected...
View ArticleTelling Hard Truths: Budget Cuts Are Coming; Protect Crown Jewels
In August 2011, the Budget Control Act was signed into law and sequestration quickly became a buzzword in Washington. Facing the prospect of $500 billion in defense cuts over the...
View ArticleCongress Handcuffs Pentagon Cost-Cutters
Bases that can’t be closed, weapons that can’t be retired, benefits that can’t be touched. What’s left? The essentials. While the budget battles in recent years have been difficult for...
View ArticleThe Next Carrier Air Wing: Stealthy UCAS Needed for Contested Airspace
In early February, analysts from four Washington think tanks held a public event to recommend how the Pentagon could walk the fine line between developing a future military capable of...
View ArticleToward a Balanced Combat Air Force
In what may prove to be a brief strategic pause following the end of major operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress and DoD have the opportunity to accord priority to...
View ArticleThe Unserious Air War Against ISIS
The campaign against Serbia in 1999 averaged 138 strike sorties daily. Against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria: seven. Since U.S. planes first struck targets in Iraq on Aug. 8,...
View ArticleThirty-Eight Think Tank Experts Urge Defense Reform
>>>Watch a May 14 panel discussion on the recommendations of Defense Reform Consensus Today, all of CSBA’s senior scholars join dozens of experts from a bipartisan group of think tanks in...
View ArticleSustaining America’s Precision Strike Advantage
The U.S. military has enjoyed an enormous advantage in precision strike over the past 25 years. The success of America’s precision strike operations has not gone unnoticed, however. Potential enemies...
View ArticleAmerica’s Precision Strike Advantage
Mark Gunzinger and Bryan Clark discuss their recently-released report, Sustaining America’s Precision Strike Advantage, with Vago Muradian on Defense News:
View ArticleThe Future of Air Force Long-Range Strike
In his remarks before the House Armed Services Committee, Mark Gunzinger argues that the Air Force has an opportunity to create a family-of-systems that will maintain America’s long-range strike...
View ArticleInterview with Mark Gunzinger: Northrop Grumman’s USAF Bomber Win
In an interview with Vago Muradian of Defense News, Mark Gunzinger explains that the Long Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B) will fill a critical capability gap for the Air Force and anchor a future...
View ArticleWinning The Airwaves: Regaining America’s Dominance In The Electromagnetic...
The electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) is one of the most critical operational domains in modern warfare, but its use in military operations is rapidly changing. In the same way smartphones and...
View ArticleWinning the Airwaves: Sustaining America’s Advantage in the Electromagnetic...
By Bryan Clark and Mark Gunzinger 4 December 2015 The electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) is one of the most critical domains in modern warfare. While militaries have long used it to...
View ArticleHow To Make Better Buying Power Better
Breaking Defense By BRYAN CLARK and MARK GUNZINGER March 01, 2016 Reforming the U.S. military’s acquisition system has been a hot issue since Congress replaced the Continental Army’s first...
View ArticleAmerica Needs an Air and Missile Defense Revolution
Over the last 15 years, the Department of Defense spent more than $24 billion to procure a mix of surface-to-air interceptors that lacks the capacity to defeat large salvos of...
View ArticleWinning The Salvo Competition: Rebalancing America’s Air And Missile Defenses
Over the last fifteen years, the Department of Defense spent more than $24 billion buying a mix of capabilities to defeat guided missile threats to U.S. and partner naval forces...
View ArticleHow To Secure NATO’s Frontline States
By Mark Gunzinger And Jacob Cohn Twenty-five years after the end of the Cold War, it may be time for NATO to adopt a new AirLand Battle-like concept to help...
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