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Placebo: The 2014 Defense Budget and DOD’s Credibility Challenges
Author(s): Travis SharpType of Publication: CommentaryDate: 04/10/2013Travis Sharp writes in Placebo: The 2014 Defense Budget and DOD’s Credibility Challenges that the Obama Administration’s FY 2014 defense budget is a placeholder and that the overall level of defense spending will decline significantly in the coming year and beyond. This, he argues, presents strategic, as well as operational, challenges for the United States, undermining the nation’s credibility by “over-promising and under-delivering on its global security ambitions.”
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Sustainable Pre-eminence: Reforming the U.S. Military at a Time of Strategic Change
Type of Publication: ReportDate: 05/23/2012Maintaining the U.S. military’s global pre-eminence is vital to protecting American interests and promoting American values. However, the Pentagon still has not enacted the types of reforms that are necessary to sustain that pre-eminence into the future. In Sustainable Preeminence: Reforming the U.S. Military at a Time of Strategic Change, CNAS experts LTG David W. Barno, USA (Ret.), Dr. Nora Bensahel, Matthew Irvine and Travis Sharp argue that DOD should organize and operate America’s armed forces in new ways. Click here to read the transcript from the May 29 live web chat with the authors of Sustainable Pre-eminence.
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Down Payment: Defense Guidance, 2013 Defense Budget and the Risks of Sequestration
Author(s): Travis SharpType of Publication: Policy BriefDate: 02/10/2012The Pentagon’s new strategic guidance and fiscal year 2013 budget request avoid major disruptions to current U.S. defense plans, but they make only a down payment on the defense budget cuts that may eventually be imposed through sequestration, argues Travis Sharp, CNAS Bacevich Fellow, in Down Payment: Defense Guidance, 2013 Defense Budget and the Risks of Sequestration.
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Hard Choices: Responsible Defense in an Age of Austerity
Type of Publication: ReportDate: 10/03/2011Hard Choices: Responsible Defense in an Age of Austerity, a report authored by CNAS experts LTG David W. Barno, USA (Ret.), Dr. Nora Bensahel and Travis Sharp, outlines four budget cut scenarios and evaluates possible trade-offs among force structure, end strength, procurement and overhead.
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America’s Cyber Future: Security and Prosperity in the Information Age
Author(s): Robert E. Kahn, Mike McConnell, Peter Schwartz, Nova J. Daly, Martha Finnemore, Richard Fontaine, Daniel E. Geer Jr., David A. Gross, Jason Healey, James A. Lewis, Kristin M. Lord, M. Ethan Lucarelli, Thomas G. Mahnken, Gary McGraw, Roger H. Miksad, Dr. Greg Rattray, Will Rogers, Christopher M. Schroeder, Travis SharpType of Publication: ReportDate: 05/31/2011Despite productive efforts by the U.S. government and the private sector to strengthen cyber security, the increasing sophistication of cyber threats continues to outpace progress. To help U.S. policymakers address the growing danger of cyber insecurity, this two-volume report features accessible and insightful chapters on cyber security strategy, policy, and technology by some of the world’s leading experts on international relations, national security, and information technology.
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The Sacrifice Ahead: The 2012 Defense Budget
Author(s): Travis SharpType of Publication: Policy BriefDate: 02/14/2011The fiscal year 2012 defense budget request is a break from the past ten years of budget growth, but it does not go far enough to rebalance defense spending priorities given the fiscal pressures and threats the United States faces, according to this policy brief. The Sacrifice Ahead: The 2012 Defense Budget recommends that the Department of Defense (DOD) pursue additional efficiencies savings and make modest reductions in its base budget to help shore up the U.S. economy, the core of America’s global and military power.
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An Indispensable Force: Investing in America’s National Guard and Reserves
Author(s): Dr. John A. Nagl, Travis SharpType of Publication: ReportDate: 09/21/2010This report argues that the United States must undertake a number of initiatives to ensure that the National Guard and Reserves remain an indispensable force capable of defending the American homeland and protecting U.S. security interests around the world.
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Vision Meets Reality: 2010 QDR and 2011 Defense Budget
Author(s): Travis SharpType of Publication: Policy BriefDate: 02/01/2010This policy brief provides an analysis of the FY 2011 defense budget request, places it in the context of the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review and historical budgetary trends, and outlines the uncertain budgetary future that looms ahead.
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Travis Sharp
Travis Sharp is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) and was previously the Bacevich Fellow. He is currently a Master's candidate at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Prior to joining CNAS, he served as Military Policy Analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, where he started as a Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellow.
Mr. Sharp’s research focuses on U.S. defense policy, strategy, and spending. He has co-authored major CNAS reports on the defense budget, cyber security, and the National Guard and Reserve. His writing has appeared in International Affairs, Orbis, Joint Force Quarterly, Parameters, Defense & Security Analysis, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Defense News, ForeignAffairs.com, ForeignPolicy.com, NationalInterest.org, and many others. His work has been included in the curricula at several public policy graduate schools and featured in academic textbooks about U.S. government. He has briefed senior government, military, and industry officials and has participated in official research trips to Iraq, Israel, and Afghanistan.
Mr. Sharp holds a B.A. in Politics and U.S. History from the University of San Francisco.
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Defense Analysts Slam Pentagon for Ignoring Sequester
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President's Plan Would Trim Defense Spending
Type: News ItemSource: The Washington PostApril 10, 2013 — The Washington Post 's Federal Eye blog, cites CNAS Non-Resident Fellow Travis Sharp’s claim that the budget’s exclusion of sequestration cuts makes it a “placebo, a placeholder with no effect.”
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2014 Budget: Three Reasons Why The Pentagon's Request Is Irrelevant On Arrival
Type: News ItemSource: AOL DefenseApril 10, 2013 — Sydney Greenberg Jr. of AOL Defense quotes CNAS Non Resident Fellow Travis Sharp's recent commentary on the Obama Administration's FY 2014 defense budget proposal.
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Obama Administration’s FY 2014 Defense Budget is "Placebo," Says CNAS Expert
Type: Press ReleaseWashington, DC, April 10, 2013 — The President's FY 2014 defense budget request released today is a "placebo, a placeholder with no effect," according to Travis Sharp, a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Mr. Sharp notes in his commentary, Placebo: The 2014 Defense Budget and DOD's Credibility Challenges, that defense spending levels will likely have to be reduced beyond the President's budget because they exceed the caps imposed by sequestration.
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Pitchfork in the Road
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The fleet of tanks the military doesn't want but Congress is fighting to keep
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Forget Revolution
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Hard Choices: Responsible Defense in an Age of Austerity
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Challenges for the New U.S. Secretary of Defense
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An Indispensable Force: Investing in America's National Guard and Reserves
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Hard Choices: Responsible Defense in an Age of Austerity - Video
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Hard Choices: Responsible Defense in an Age of Austerity - Audio
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Transcript - Hard Choices: Responsible Defense in an Age of Austerity
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Transcript: 1LT Andrew J. Bacevich, Jr., USA Fellowship Presentation
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Analysis: CIA-DoD Leadership Shuffle
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Exclusive Interview with John Nagl on Investing in America's National Guard and Reserves
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