Madison Creery, Katherine Kjellström Elgin, and Tim Sadov will assess Russia’s options for rebuilding its military in the wake of the Ukraine war. They will develop a Russian strategic choices tool that allows users to explore different force structure options in a budget-constrained environment and use the tool to conduct exercises that test various options for reconstituting the Russian military. The project’s findings will appear in a report.
Katherine Kjellström Elgin will assess NATO’s defense posture and investments in the Baltic Sea region following the accession of Sweden and Finland to the alliance. She will review existing research, conduct field work in Sweden and Finland, and develop recommendations for those countries’ force structures over the next te
Madison Creery, Katherine Kjellström Elgin, and Tim Sadov will assess Russia’s options for rebuilding its military in the wake of the Ukraine war. They will develop a Russian strategic choices tool (SCT) that allows users to explore different force structure options in a budget-constrained environment and will use the SCT to conduct exercises that test various options for reconstituting the Russian military. The project’s findings will appear in a report.
Thomas Mahnken will research and write a monograph assessing how U.S. military services may better align their personnel management policies with the national security strategy emphasis on the Indo-Pacific region.
Katherine Kjellström Elgin will assess NATO’s defense posture and investments in the Baltic Sea region following the accession of Sweden and Finland to the alliance. She will review existing research, conduct field work in Sweden and Finland, and undertake a pair of exercises that use CSBA’s strategic-choices tool to analyze and develop recommendations for Sweden’s and Finland’s force structure options over the next ten years. The project’s findings will be presented in a pair of reports.
Travis Sharp will investigate the dynamics of the U.S.-China “cost contest,” in which the powers seek to allocate defense resources most efficiently in the context of their larger military competition. He will undertake research and organize a workshop to assess the dynamics of the cost contest in three domains over the past two decades: ground-based long-range fires; aircraft carrier operations; and space-based command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, reconnaissance, and surveillance. The project’s findings will appear in a report.
Jack Bianchi and Gabriel Collins will explore whether China’s growing overseas infrastructure could become a vulnerability for Beijing. They will assess the character and scale of China’s overseas infrastructure investments; identify vulnerabilities based upon such characteristics as the ownership structure of those assets; compare options for exploiting or defending prospective vulnerabilities; and conduct a workshop and a war game to test the merits of proposed policy options. The project’s findings will be presented in a report.