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Lawmakers face defense funding fight in the new year
WASHINGTON – The budget instabilities that plagued a challenged military in 2017 won’t end with New Year’s celebrations. Instead, lawmakers have delayed a defense funding figh...
By Susanna V. Blume & Lauren Fish
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NDAA Press Note: TBI and DoD Study on Blast Pressure Exposure
Press Note
Washington, December 12 – The new National Defense Authorization Act, recently signed into law by the president, requires the Department of Defense to conduct a medical study ...
By Paul Scharre & Lauren Fish
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Government shutdown could halt military pay, programs
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By Lauren Fish
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US Navy Is NOT Ready For Major War: Ex-Skippers, Bob Work
WASHINGTON: The US surface fleet may not be adequately trained for high-intensity combat, four experienced former skippers and the former deputy secretary of defense warned a ...
By Robert O. Work
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Navy Defends LCS, Positioning It For Frigate Competition
WASHINGTON: Even as the Navy solicits designs for its future frigate, it is ardently defending its current Littoral Combat Ship. A memo obtained by Breaking Defense lists abou...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Industry Can Build 355 Ships, But Which Ones?
WASHINGTON: Sure, American industry can build the 355-ship fleet both Trump and the admirals want, three former Navy Secretaries said today. We can even build it a lot faster ...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Navy Is Still Searching For A Plan To Reach A 355-Ship Fleet
n 2016, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump made the idea of building up a 350-ship Navy a cornerstone of his stump speech, complaining that the U.S. military was failing...
By Jerry Hendrix
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CNAS Press Note: What Matters in the New NDAA?
Press Note
Washington, November 14 – With the House and Senate Armed Services committees having finalized the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act, Center for a New American Security ...
By Susanna V. Blume
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The Navy’s Triple-Carrier Pacific Deployment Was an Accident, Not a Power Play
The greatest concentration of American naval power in a decade is an accident of scheduling and navigation, according to the U.S. Navy. But the coincidental convergence of thr...
By Jerry Hendrix
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US launches 'most advanced' stealth sub amid undersea rivalry
Touted as the world's most technologically advanced fast attack submarine, the USS South Dakota is set to join the US Navy fleet amid a growing threat to American undersea dom...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Report: Trump Must Team up With Private Business to Preserve U.S. Edge in Space
The Trump administration should promote policies within the business community to advance U.S. space capabilities in order to maintain the nation's strategic edge over Russia ...
By Jerry Hendrix
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A Russian Ghost Submarine, Its U.S. Pursuers and a Deadly New Cold War
The Krasnodar, a Russian attack submarine, left the coast of Libya in late May, headed east across the Mediterranean, then slipped undersea, quiet as a mouse. Then, it fired a...
By Center for a New American Security
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How Bath Iron Works Stands To Benefit From The Navy’s Proposed Fleet Expansion
Congress is poised to embrace the Navy’s goal of expanding from its current fleet of 275 ships to 355. Doing so will be costly — the Congressional Budget Office has estimated ...
By Jerry Hendrix
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No, Trump Didn't Botch the Puerto Rico Crisis
"Send in the cavalry." That was the advice retired Army General Russel Honore gave President Donald Trump this week about responding to the devastation of Puerto Rico by Hurri...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Senate defense bill goes for final vote
Senators are poised to approve a massive $700 billion defense bill Monday night, setting the stage for a budget fight on how to fund a major increase in military spending. The...
By Lauren Fish
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North Korean missile launches impact US defense spending priorities
The Senate is voting on military spending with a wary eye on North Korea as the country continues to test missiles over Japan.Listen to the story and Susanna's comments here....
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CNAS Press Note: A New Push for Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC)
Press Note
With Chairman John McCain and Ranking Member Jack Reed of the Senate Armed Services Committee offering an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) authorizin...
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Defense Executives: Trump Cannot Reverse Globalization Trends
Congress in last year’s National Defense Authorization Act made Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia members of the “national technology and industrial base.” The legislat...
By Lauren Fish
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A fleet to do what?
There has been a lot of talk about building a fleet of 350 or more ships to restore American strength in the world. This has naturally provoked debate over what kind of ships ...
By Jerry Hendrix
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DoD suggests changing promotion boards to keep talent
The Defense Department wants Congress to change the law regarding one of the most controversial parts of the military’s “up or out” system. A Sept. 11 DoD legislative proposal...
By Lauren Fish
