Special Operation Forces: Future Challenges and Opportunities
Special Operations Forces (SOF) are elite, highly trained military units that conduct operations that typically exceed the capabilities of conventional forces. They have figured prominently in US...
View ArticleSpecial Operations Forces: Challenges and Opportunities
Introduction Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to share my views on the challenges and opportunities facing U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF).1 SOF have figured prominently...
View ArticleUnmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike (UCLASS)...
VIDEO>> In this testimony delivered before the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces on July 16, 2014, Robert Martinage challenges the dominant view on the core...
View ArticleMaintaining the Relevance of the Future Carrier Air Wing
On July 16, I had the honor of testifying before the House Armed Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces on the issue of requirements for the US Navy’s...
View ArticleToward a New Offset Strategy: Exploiting U.S. Long-Term Advantages to Restore...
This report provides a preliminary outline for an offset strategy that exploits and builds upon existing enduring U.S. capability advantages to restore and maintain U.S. global power projection...
View ArticleA Strategy to Save U.S. Military Superiority
Facing an uncertain period of fiscal austerity, the U.S. military nevertheless confronts a range of worsening security threats around the globe. Dealing with emerging threats is increasingly difficult...
View ArticleThe Role of Maritime and Air Power in DoD’s Third Offset Strategy
“The U.S. military needs a new offset strategy for projecting power effectively and affordably across the threat spectrum. While it must take account of America’s fiscal circumstances, the central...
View ArticleThirty-Eight Think Tank Experts Urge Defense Reform
>>>Watch a May 14 panel discussion on the recommendations of Defense Reform Consensus Today, all of CSBA’s senior scholars join dozens of experts from a bipartisan group of think tanks in...
View ArticleDoD’s Offset Strategy
CSBA’s Bob Martinage and Ben FitzGerald of the Center for New American Security discuss how the U.S. plans to offset the technological gains of other countries on Defense News with...
View ArticleRevisiting the Roles and Missions of the Armed Forces
In his testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Robert Martinage argues that the roles and missions of the Armed Forces need to be realigned to better address U.S. national security...
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