| 来源类型 | Report |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| To rebuild America’s military | |
| Thomas Donnelly; Gary J. Schmitt; Mackenzie Eaglen; Jim Talent; Phillip Lohaus; Roger I. Zakheim; William Inglee | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-10-07 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | What to Do: Policy Recommendations for 2017 is an ongoing project from AEI. Click here for access to the complete series, which addresses a wide range of issues from rebuilding America’s military to higher education reform to helping people find work. Key Points The current US military force is too small, its equipment is too old, and it is not trained or ready for a large or long fight. The decline of US military power has severe implications for security and prosperity not just in America but also in Europe, in East Asia, and especially across the greater Middle East. Defense planning for the next administration must take a long-term perspective, adopting a three-theater force construct, increasing military capacity, introducing new capabilities urgently, and increasing and sustaining defense budgets. Read the report: PDF | EPUB | Kindle | iBooks Tweet about the report with #Rebuild2016. Executive Summary Since the end of the Cold War, America’s presidents—George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama—have employed the US military repeatedly. However, none of them thought it necessary to make serious or substantial long-term investments in the US armed forces. The next president must begin to rebuild America’s military. The current force is too small; its equipment—largely the legacy of the Reagan-era build-up—is too old; and it is not trained or ready for a large or long fight. The military services are in danger of losing their best, brightest, and most battle-tested people: the “all-volunteer force” marks a moral compact between the American public and the small number of Americans who risk their lives to keep the rest of us safe. That compact requires us not only to care for the wounded, the widows, and the retired but also to provide those who would go in harm’s way with the means for victory. When we fail to do so, it breaks faith with those in uniform. INFOGRAPHIC | Rebuilding America’s Military This failure also endangers America. Even in the current hothouse media environment, it is impossible to miss what the decline of US military power means for the world, in Europe, in East Asia, and most especially across the greater Middle East. Things are falling apart as the American center cannot hold. This report shows a way forward. Grounded in a traditional understanding of our national security goals and strategy, the path is clear. Defense planning for the next administration must: To remain a global power, the United States must preserve a favorable balance of military power in Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia. Deterring further Russian and Chinese aggression requires forces that are powerful and constantly present, and securing our interests in the Middle East requires not just presence but also an effort to reverse the rising tide of our many adversaries: Iran, ISIS, and al Qaeda and its associates. America cannot lead the world by “pivoting” among these theaters nor by retreating to the continental United States. Since the end of the Cold War, US forces have been unrelentingly deployed. After 9/11, they were not sufficient to successfully conduct campaigns simultaneously in Iraq and Afghanistan, despite a massive mobilization of reserve component troops, an increase, though tardy, in active-duty numbers, and innovative employment of Navy and Air Force leaders in ground missions. Neither the rapid introduction of new equipment such as the massive mine-resistant vehicles nor the renaissance in counterinsurgency operations could make up for the lack of forces. The United States needs a force sufficient for a three-theater posture. Programs to transform the military or to offset the new weaponry now fielded by adversaries have been a disaster; the failure to modernize across the force since the 1980s now leaves the US military without the great technological advantages that allowed it to “shock and awe” its enemies and conduct decisive operations with very few casualties. The Pentagon must be allowed to buy what it can quickly and economically and begin to build what it needs within the next decade. The defense spending cuts of the early Obama years and the further reductions mandated by the Budget Control Act have merely accelerated a pattern of defense divestment that began a generation ago. The damage is too great to repair within the course of a single administration. A “two-target” investment strategy is required: first, return military budgets to the level set by former Defense Secretary Robert Gates in his original 2012 budget, and second, gradually build up to an affordable floor of 4 percent of gross domestic product that would sustain the kind of military America needs. Sound defense planning demands a long-term perspective, resting not on what changes—threats and technologies—but on what remains constant—American security interests and political principles. Since 1945, the one constant of international politics has been the military power of the United States. Our next commander-in-chief must rebuild America’s military power. Read the full report. |
| 主题 | Defense |
| 标签 | AEI Archive ; Cornerstone Content ; Defense budget ; defense reform ; Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies ; Rebuilding America's military ; US military ; What to do policy recommendations defense homeland security and intelligence |
| URL | https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/to-rebuild-americas-military/ |
| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/206173 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Thomas Donnelly,Gary J. Schmitt,Mackenzie Eaglen,等. To rebuild America’s military. 2015. |
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