By Katherine McIntyre Peters
The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments on Monday released three new reports aimed at informing the next administration as it makes difficult decisions in shaping a new military strategy.
Comment on this article in The Forum.The nonpartisan center's analysts laid out detailed accounts of the recruiting, equipping and organizational challenges confronting the ground services and recommended the Obama administration cut some weapons programs, reorganize special operations forces and reconsider plans to substantially increase the size of the Army.
The reports were the latest installments in the center's "Strategy for the Long Haul," a comprehensive look at how the services are poised to face the most likely strategic challenges in the coming years. The 15-volume collection of monographs seeks to inform the Pentagon's upcoming Quadrennial Defense Review, which will get under way in early 2009, as well as guide the Obama administration.
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