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Power Projection

Making the Tough Choices

By: Mark Alan Gunzinger

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Power Projection

Making the Tough Choices

By: Mark Alan Gunzinger

This study concludes airpower will play an increasingly dominant role in future US contingency responses. Power projection is defined as the finite application of military power by national command authority to achieve discrete political ends outside the borders of the United States, its territories, and possessions. Power projection contingencies are characterized as wars and operations short of war, but not conflicts that are global or total in nature. Future contingencies that demand a US response may occur without warning, be time sensitive, and require short duration deployments. US forces may not have immediate access to or a previously established presence in potential theaters of operation. Due to the changing nature of the international environment and domestic priorities, the President defined a new National Secunty Strategy that emphasizes projecting military forces in response to regional conflicts. The military services are currently modifying their doctrine and force structures to reflect the shift towards power projection. The services agree power projection forces must be lethal, flexible, deployable, mobile, and capable of surviving an increasingly hostile threat environment. Comparing force characteristics reveals airpower has greater flexibility, deployability, mobility, and is better able to survive future threat environments than surface forces. New domestic imperatives have also forced the services to engage in a healthy competition to preserve their share of a shrinking defense budget. In terms of efficiency, apportioning resources according to an arcane formula that does not reflect force capabilities or the future utility of primary service functions is illogical. Building a strong power projection capability requires a thorough evaluation of the relative efficacy of air, land, and sea power to perform the power projection mission.

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DIANE Publishing

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1428992731

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U.S. Military Forces in FY 2021

The Last Year of Growth?

By: Mark F. Cancian

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U.S. Military Forces in FY 2021

The Last Year of Growth?

By: Mark F. Cancian

CSIS senior adviser Mark Cancian annually produces a series of white papers on U.S. military forces, including their composition, new initiatives, long-term trends, and challenges. This report is a compilation of these papers and takes a deep look at each of the military services, the new Space Force, special operations forces, DOD civilians, and contractors in the FY 2021 budget. This report further includes a foreword regarding how the Biden administration might approach decisions facing the military forces, drawing on insights from the individual chapters.

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129

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538140365

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9781538140369

U.S. Military Forces in FY 2022

Peering into the Abyss

By: Mark F. Cancian

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U.S. Military Forces in FY 2022

Peering into the Abyss

By: Mark F. Cancian

CSIS's Mark Cancian annually produces a series of white papers on U.S. military forces, including their composition, new initiatives, long-term trends, and challenges. This report is a compilation of these papers. It takes a deep look at each military service, as well as special operations forces, DOD civilians, and contractors in the FY 2022 budget. The report also discusses the debate about legacy equipment, the interaction of the budget and force size, and the decline in force size that the services face with retiring older systems without adequate replacements.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538170442

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U.S. Military Forces in FY 2020

The Struggle to Align Forces with Strategy

By: Mark F. Cancian

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U.S. Military Forces in FY 2020

The Struggle to Align Forces with Strategy

By: Mark F. Cancian

Annually, CSIS senior adviser Mark Cancian publishes a series of papers on U.S. military forces—their composition, new initiatives, long-term trends, and challenges. The overall theme of this year’s report is the struggle to align forces and strategy because of budget tradeoffs that even defense buildups must make, unrelenting operational demands that stress forces and prevent force structure reductions, and legacy programs whose smooth operations and strong constituencies inhibit rapid change. This report takes a deeper look at the strategic and budget context, the military services, special operations forces, DOD civilians and contractors, and non-DOD national security organizations in the FY 2020 budget.

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1442281448

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U.S. Military Forces in FY 2018

The Uncertain Buildup

By: Mark F. Cancian

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U.S. Military Forces in FY 2018

The Uncertain Buildup

By: Mark F. Cancian

The Department of Defense (DOD) faces a strategic choice: whether to focus on modernization for high-tech conflicts with China and Russia or expand forces and improve readiness to meet a superpower’s commitments for ongoing conflicts and crisis response. In their FY 2018 budgets, the services all complain that they are too small for the demands being put on them and hedge toward expanding forces and readiness. In the new DOD strategy being developed for 2019 and beyond, the services hope to pursue all three goals—expand forces, improve readiness, and increase modernization—but the fiscal future is highly uncertain, and they will likely have to make difficult trade-offs.

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1442280425

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Asia-Pacific Rebalance 2025

Capabilities, Presence, and Partnerships

By: Michael Green,Kathleen Hicks,Mark F. Cancian

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Asia-Pacific Rebalance 2025

Capabilities, Presence, and Partnerships

By: Michael Green,Kathleen Hicks,Mark F. Cancian

In 2015, Congress tasked the Department of Defense to commission an independent assessment of U.S. military strategy and force posture in the Asia-Pacific, as well as that of U.S. allies and partners, over the next decade. This CSIS study fulfills that congressional requirement. The authors assess U.S. progress to date and recommend initiatives necessary to protect U.S. interests in the Pacific Command area of responsibility through 2025. Four lines of effort are highlighted: (1) Washington needs to continue aligning Asia strategy within the U.S. government and with allies and partners; (2) U.S. leaders should accelerate efforts to strengthen ally and partner capability, capacity, resilience, and interoperability; (3) the United States should sustain and expand U.S. military presence in the Asia-Pacific region; and (4) the United States should accelerate development of innovative capabilities and concepts for U.S. forces.

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1442259175

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Canada, a Travel Survival Kit

By: Mark Lightbody

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Canada, a Travel Survival Kit

By: Mark Lightbody

Fifth edition of a guide first published in 1983. Comprehensive guide providing details on transport, accommodation, sights and highlights of each province, with particular emphasis on the natural environment. Also features 97 maps, hints on eco-tourism, Canadian English and Canadian French language sections, a glossary and an index.

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Berkeley, Calif. : Lonely Planet

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0864420420

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9780864420428

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Power Projection

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Asia-Pacific Rebalance 2025

Asia-Pacific Rebalance 2025

Canada, a Travel Survival Kit

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