Burke Chair on U.S. Strategic and Defense Efforts - Related Publication

The 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review

amausner — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400

In 2010, the Obama administration will release its first Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR). A strategic framework for the Department of Defense as it confronts current and future challenges, the QDR is intended to serve as a means to develop new policies, capabilities and initiatives. However, these intentions have so far been unrealized.

Resourcing For Defeat

amausner — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400

The United States is now losing the war in Afghanistan, and is failing to consolidate its victory in Iraq. Reversing this situation requires changes in strategy, but it also requires significant additional resources.

Cleansing the Poisoned Chalice?

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400

The United States faces a crisis in defense strategy, planning, programming, and budgeting almost as severe as the crisis it faces in its domestic economy. Its system for formulating defense strategy, planning, programming and budget documents has failed both within the Department of Defense and at the interagency level--problems documented in previous reports by the Burke Chair.

U.S. Strategy, Force Plans, and the FY2010 Defense Budget

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates provided the first indications of how he will seek to shift the U.S. defense budget and program in his press briefing of April 6, 2009.

Reforming Defense Decisionmaking

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400

The formal challenge of this conference is to transform the way the Department of Defense does its business.

America's Self-Destroying Air Power

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500

An updated Burke Chair report entitled America’s Self-Destroying Air Power: Becoming Your Own Peer Threat examines the impact of a crisis in aircraft procurement on tactical, strategic, and enabling capabilities of U.S. air power. It draws on recent government and other reports to describe the problems in U.S. aircraft procurement and their impact on U.S.

The Future Combat System

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500

A new Burke Chair report entitled The Future Combat System: What Future Can the Army Afford? examines the U.S.

Defense Procurement by Paralysis

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

The new administration will face a crisis in U.S. national security planning, programming, and budgeting. This crisis has accelerated sharply over the last eight years and requires a broad restructuring of the U.S. national security effort, defense spending, military manpower, procurement, and readiness.

The New Presidency and the Future of American Military Power

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

It is a minor miracle that no federal office building or Washington think tank has ever collapsed under the weight of unread transition studies.

Abandon Ships

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Various responses to this report have added valuable insights to specific issues. This feedback has been integrated into an updated version of the ‘Abandon Ships’ report. Most significantly, a revised Navy shipbuilding cost estimate for Fiscal Year 2009 illustrates the scope of the strategy-reality disconnect (see A Growing Congressional Backlash).