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Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments: The Future of National Security - Innovative research on defense strategy, budgets, and the security environment




As long as the Strait of Hormuz remains unsettled, the US Navy faces millions of dollars in extra costs each time it sends a destroyer through the waterway, and such passages on their own are unlikely to reopen it. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The Axis of Aggressors and Unraveling World Order @FDD_CMPP Advisor Amb. Eric Edelman joins me in this new episode of @FDD's Foreign Podicy to discuss evolving threats and U.S. responses, Axis of Aggressors cooperation, Trump's trip to China, the defense budget request, the defense industrial base, U.S. policy in Europe, Erdogan, nuclear threats, and more. fdd.org/podcasts/2026/…



The United States can wargame munitions consumption in detail. It cannot yet model how acquisition policy would have changed those inventories before the start of a conflict. warontherocks.com/2026/05/acquis…




WATCH: @SenatorFischer and top U.S. Commander in the Indo-Pacific make clear our military needs at least 200 B-21 bombers for nuclear deterrence to protect the homeland, and for strike capabilities.



Ukraine's frontline operations and long range strikes are hurting Russia more. China is helping Iran and has 'opened the classroom' to learn from the Iran War. These topics and more in my latest weekly update. mickryan.substack.com/p/the-learning…





