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