by David Ochmanek, Peter A. Wilson, Brenna Allen, John Speed Meyers, Carter C. Price
Research Questions
What capability areas merit highest priority for modernizing U.S. forces to encounter emerging challenges? How much would it toll to develop as well as deploy capabilities as well as posture enhancements called for past times the emerging safety environment? This study evaluates the capabilities of electrical flow as well as programmed U.S. forces to encounter the demands of conflicts that could arise involving whatever of 5 potential adversaries: China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, as well as Salafist-jihadi groups worldwide. The study finds that U.S. forces today are larger than necessary to struggle a unmarried major war, are failing to maintain footstep amongst the modernizing forces of bully mightiness adversaries, are poorly postured to encounter primal challenges inwards Europe as well as East Asia, as well as are insufficiently trained as well as ready to move past times the virtually operational utility from many of its active element units. The study recommends a host of enhancements to the capabilities as well as posture of U.S. forces as well as offers iii option forcefulness planning constructs to help ensure that defence resources are, inwards the future, applied to the highest-priority needs. Key Findings
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) continues to run a Two Regional Wars touchstone for forcefulness planning, although this touchstone at in i lawsuit bears piddling human relationship to what the management as well as the acre await U.S. armed forces to move prepared to do.
Important national interests today are beingness challenged past times 2 major powers — Russian Federation as well as PRC — that pose operational as well as strategic challenges that far outstrip those posed past times the regional adversaries that animate DoD's electrical flow forcefulness planning build (FPC).
With its growing arsenal of nuclear weapons as well as ballistic missiles, Democratic People's South Korea today presents threats for which U.S. as well as allied forces lack satisfactory answers.
Although the USA as well as its allies as well as partners accept made considerable headway inwards blunting the threat posed past times al Qa'ida as well as its affiliates, U.S. forces must await to move engaged inwards the struggle amongst Salafist-jihadi groups, such equally ISIS, for many years to come.
Addressing the challenges posed past times the most-capable adversaries to a greater extent than oft than non calls non for a larger U.S. forcefulness but rather for a forcefulness equipped amongst appropriate modern weapons as well as back upward assets that is too postured for responsive as well as resilient operations inwards theaters of potential conflict.
Recommendations
Force planning inwards DoD today should house greater priority on modernizing the capabilities as well as posture of U.S. forces inwards guild to meliorate enable them to deter as well as defeat aggression past times China, Russia, as well as North Korea.
At the same time, forcefulness planners should render for the continued, gradual expansion of exceptional operations forces, modernize U.S. nuclear forces, as well as raise readiness levels of active element forces
Key investment priorities should include:
Systems as well as concepts to let U.S. forces to detect, locate, as well as harm or destroy mobile state of war machine forces (e.g., naval vessels, mechanized dry reason forces) inwards areas protected past times advanced air defenses.
Systems as well as concepts to let the rapid suppression/neutralization of advanced air defence arrays.
New approaches to increase the resiliency of frontward state as well as bounding main bases as well as then that they tin sustain operations inwards the human face upward of repeated attacks past times precision cruise as well as ballistic missiles.
Systems as well as concepts to increase the resiliency of primal capabilities based inwards space, including positioning, timing, as well as navigation (PNT); reconnaissance; as well as communications.
Prepositioning as well as frontward stationing of assets inwards theaters to root existing imbalances as well as to back upward to a greater extent than rapid, large-scale operations.
Implementing these recommendations at today's degree of defence spending would involve substantial reductions inwards forcefulness structure. The acre could avoid major forcefulness cuts as well as make the objectives outlined higher upward past times increasing defence spending past times $20 billion to $40 billion per twelvemonth on a sustained basis.
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