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CSBA: Busting defense budget caps could require ‘eye-popping’ OCO increase
Substantially increasing defense spending for fiscal 2018 could require a "eye-popping increase" in funding for Overseas Contingency Operations, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments reported today in a new analysis.
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LCS Lives: They Still Count in Age of Frigates
After studying the Navy’s Request for Information (RFI) on industry’s frigate designs, “I wouldn’t say the RFI repudiates the LCS approach, because the idea of having a smaller, less-expensive, shallow-draft, fast ship makes sense,” said retired commander Bryan Clark, now with the Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments.
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US Congress to Undermine US-Russia INF Treaty and Entire Existing Nuclear Arms Control Architecture
Russia’s alleged violations serve as a pretext for deploying shorter and intermediate range weapons to strike other countries, like North Korea.
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China menace triggers call for missile defence shield
In an article in The Australian today — which is co-written by Thomas Mahnken, a former defence strategist for George W. Bush’s administration and now chief executive of the US Centre for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments — they argue that Australia needs to get over ideological “hang-ups” on missile defence capability.
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Is the Arctic The Next South China Sea? Not Likely
“Today, there are some competing claims, but…it’s an orderly process and no one is building islands, drilling in someone else’s potential EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone), or harassing each other’s vessels,” said Bryan Clark,
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Australia needs to plan for a missile defence shield to protect country from China and North Korea: security experts
A former defence strategist for George W. Bush’s administration and now chief executive of the US Centre for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments joined Shearer’s call that Australia should be planning for a longer-term continental missile shield for Australia.