1、 Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments 1667 K Street NW,Suite 900,Washington DC 20006 Thinking Smarter About Defense www.CSBAonline.org|202-331-7990|Fax 202-331-8019 February 11,2015 STATEMENT BEFORE THE HOUSE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE ALTERNATIVE BUDGETS AND STRATEGIC CHOICES By Jim Thomas
2、Vice President and Director of Studies Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments Chairman Thornberry,Ranking Member Smith,Members of the Committee,thank you for the opportunity to testify before you.The U.S.military not only faces an enormous fiscal challenge but also a range of foreign threats
3、 and rapidly changing operating environments that necessitate rebalancing our forces and capabilities.In my testimony today,I will describe rebalancing measures adopted by a Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments(CSBA)team in the Strategic Choices Exercise we conducted with other leading def
4、ense think tanks last year.I will begin by describing our diagnosis of the global security picture and then proceed to the strategic approach we adopted to guide our rebalancing efforts.While the exercise required all teams to rebalance across the next two Future Years Defense Program,none of us wou
