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The U.S. Military Is Moving Into These 5 Bases in the Philippines Military Times
"I suspect that it will ramp up slowly," said Jan van Tol, a retired U.S. Navy captain and senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments in Washington. "A suddenly much larger U.S. presence, even if just a rotational presence, that can be seen, certainty in Beijing, that this is a ratcheting up of a U.S.-Chinese competition in the South China Sea.
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Navy, Marines Bolster Cybersecurity Defenses
Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, said CANES is “designed to consolidate a lot of the little networks that we have out in the fleet today into a smaller number of networks.
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Clark: Better Buying Power Could Be Better – Here’s How
Bryan Clark is former Special Assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations and Director of the CNO’s Commander’s Action Group. He’s now Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. He and his colleague Mark Gunzinger are writing in Breaking Defense about how to make BBP better; Bryan talked about those ideas on National Defense Week.
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House Budget Committee Releases GOP Spending Blueprint
Kate Blakeley, an analyst with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, predicted the budget resolution will face a “rough road” in the House. “In the Senate, both Republicans and Democrats have agreed to move ahead with drafting appropriations bills at the BBA 2015 level and have no interest in re-opening the appropriations battles of last year,” she said. “Unless the House can find a way to agree to the negotiated levels for defense and non-defense spending, the chances of a funding showdown, shutdown or continuing resolution go way up -- a disastrous scenario for the Pentagon.”
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Fighting Down to the Last $30 Billion
“They’re using that money largely to preserve force structure," said Katherine Blakeley, a research fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. "So that’s the number of people in the Army, the number of people in the Marines -- to avoid having to make deeper cuts.”
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After U.S. Show of Force, China Takes Hard Line on South China Sea
Patrols such as the one made by the Stennis Carrier Strike Group are intended to assure allies and regional partners that the U.S. is committed to their interests in the region, said Bryan Clark, a retired submarine officer and analyst with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. "Nobody in Beijing thinks that the United States doesn't care about what's happening in the South China Sea, but they might tell our allies that," he said. "They might say, 'Hey, you say the U.S. has your back but we don't ever see them around here.'"