On October 23, Atlantic Council Senior Fellow Steven Grundman wrote an Aviation Week article titled “Opinion: ‘Efficiencies’ Alone Cannot Solve US Defense Budget Crunch.” Building upon a previous article on Pentagon spending, this article argues budgetary efficiencies alone will not be enough to meet strategic requirements. Rather, the answers for the Pentagon lie in larger movements in strategy and policy.
Meeting the military-strategic challenges facing the U.S. at acceptable levels of risk will require getting substantially more national-security bang for the defense buck.
Forward Defense, housed within the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, generates ideas and connects stakeholders in the defense ecosystem to promote an enduring military advantage for the United States, its allies, and partners. Our work identifies the defense strategies, capabilities, and resources the United States needs to deter and, if necessary, prevail in future conflict.