Publications
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Studies
Strategy in Austerity
How does the leading power in the international system sustain its global position while facing the prospect of relative decline and an extended period of fiscal austerity? The answer to this question is fundamental to American policymakers’ prospects for sustaining U.S. primacy in the international system.
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Changing the Game: the Promise of Directed-Energy Weapons
Emerging directed energy technologies have the potential to transition to real-world military capabilities over the next twenty years; and become a particularly promising source of operational advantage for the U.S. military.
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The Road Ahead: Future Challenges and Their Implications for Ground Vehicle Modernization
After a decade of intensive ground operations overseas, both the Army and the Marines face important vehicle modernization issues. Addressing these issues will entail meeting two central planning challenges, the first being the inherent uncertainty of the future security environment, and the second an austere contemporary economic and budgetary environment that may exist for an extended period. This study provides a way of thinking about the Army and Marine Corps vehicle portfolios, and suggests some issues that merit attention from those tasked with determining their composition.
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Outside-In: Operating from Range to Defeat Iran’s Anti-Access and Area-Denial Threats
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the U.S. military has been able to project power overseas ..
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Sustaining Critical Sectors of the U.S. Defense Industrial Base
This monograph focuses on two main questions concerning what is most accurately described as the “military-industrial-Congressional” complex
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Analysis of the FY2012 Defense Budget
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