Rebuilding Americas Defenses

The Project for the New American Century......Page 1 September 2000......Page 2 Thomas Donnelly......Page 3 Rebuilding Today’s Armed Forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22......Page 6 Project Participants......Page 7 Introduction......Page 8 Principal Author......Page 10 Nuclear Forces......Page 19 Forces for ‘Constabulary’ Duties......Page 22 Repositioning Today’s Force......Page 26 Europe......Page 27 Persian Gulf......Page 29 East Asia......Page 30 Deployment Bases......Page 31 Rotational Naval Forces......Page 32 And Defend the Persian Gulf......Page 34 In the United States......Page 36 Forward-based Forces......Page 39 Army Modernization and Budgets......Page 40 The State of the Air Force......Page 43 Forward-Based Forces......Page 46 In the United States......Page 47 And Budgets......Page 49 New Course for the Navy......Page 51 State of the Navy Today......Page 52 New Deployment Patterns......Page 55 ‘Back to the Future’......Page 59 The State of the Marine Corps......Page 60 Navy and Marine Corps Budgets......Page 61 Creating Tomorrow’s Dominant Force......Page 62 Missile Defenses......Page 63 Toward a 21st Century Army......Page 73 Global Strikes from Air and Space......Page 75 The Navy Returns ‘To the Sea’......Page 76 As Goes the Navy, So Goes the Marine Corps......Page 79 The Congress has been complicit in this defense decline. In the first years of the administration, Congress acquiesced in the sharp reductions made by the Clinton Administration from the amount projected in the final Bush defense plan. Since the Republ......Page 81 As troublesome as the trends of the past decade have been, as inadequate as current budgets are, the longer-term future is more troubling still. If current spending levels are maintained, by some projections, the amount of the defense shortfall will be......Page 82 the road, the military departments will, in effect, create a situation in which they require $4.4 trillion in procurement dollars” from 2006 through 2020 to maintain the current force.......Page 83 The Price of American Preeminence......Page 86 Dov Zakheim......Page 90 A Report of 1 The Project for the New American Century 1 2 2 September 2000 2 3 3 Donald Kagan Gary Schmitt 3 Project Co-Chairmen 3 3 3 Thomas Donnelly 3 Contents 6 Rebuilding Today’s Armed Forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 6 Project Participants 7 Introduction 8 10 10 10 10 10 Donald Kagan Gary Schmitt 10 Project Co-Chairmen 10 10 10 Thomas Donnelly 10 Principal Author 10 Nuclear Forces 19 Forces for ‘Constabulary’ Duties 22 Repositioning Today’s Force 26 Europe 27 29 Persian Gulf 29 East Asia 30 Deployment Bases 31 Rotational Naval Forces 32 34 34 34 Army: To ‘Complete’ Europe 34 And Defend the Persian Gulf 34 The Current State of the Army 36 Army Forces Based 36 In the United States 36 39 Forward-based Forces 39 Army Modernization and Budgets 40 The State of the Air Force 43 Forward-Based Forces 46 Air Force Units Based 47 In the United States 47 Air Force Modernization 49 And Budgets 49 New Course for the Navy 51 State of the Navy Today 52 New Deployment Patterns 55 Marine Corps: 59 ‘Back to the Future’ 59 The State of the Marine Corps 60 61 Navy and Marine Corps Budgets 61 Creating Tomorrow’s Dominant Force 62 63 Missile Defenses 63 Toward a 21st Century Army 73 Global Strikes from Air and Space 75 76 The Navy Returns ‘To the Sea’ 76 As Goes the Navy, So Goes the Marine Corps 79 VI 81 Defense Spending 81 The Congress has been complicit in this defense decline. In the first years of the administration, Congress acquiesced in the sharp reductions made by the Clinton Administration from the amount projected in the final Bush defense plan. Since the Republ 81 Through all the accounting gimmicks, defense spending has been almost perfectly flat – indeed, the totals have been less than $1 billion apart – for the past four years. The steepest declines in defense spending were accomplished during the early years 82 The CSIS report is but the most recent in a series of reports gauging the size of the mismatch between current long-term defense plans and budgets. The Congres-sional Budget Office’s latest estimate of the annual mismatch is at least $90 billion. Even 82 As troublesome as the trends of the past decade have been, as inadequate as current budgets are, the longer-term future is more troubling still. If current spending levels are maintained, by some projections, the amount of the defense shortfall will be 82 the road, the military departments will, in effect, create a situation in which they require $4.4 trillion in procurement dollars” from 2006 through 2020 to maintain the current force. 83 The Price of American Preeminence 86 Alvin Bernstein 90 Stephen Cambone 90 Eliot Cohen 90 Devon Gaffney Cross 90 Thomas Donnelly 90 David Epstein 90 David Fautua 90 Dan Goure 90 Donald Kagan 90 Fred Kagan 90 Robert Kagan 90 William Kristol 90 Mark Lagon 90 James Lasswell 90 I. Lewis Libby 90 Robert Martinage 90 Phil Meilinger 90 Mackubin Owens 90 Steve Rosen 90 Gary Schmitt 90 Abram Shulsky 90 Michael Vickers 90 Barry Watts 90 Paul Wolfowitz 90 Dov Zakheim 90