All Publications by Russell Rumbaugh

• Sequester Cuts Hurting US Foreign Policy

  The mandatory across-the-board federal budget cuts known as sequester are weakening America's ability to effectively carry out foreign policy and are also highlighting the existing

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• Presidential Inbox 2013: Meet the Demand for Civilian Capacity

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  The Challenge

  The US needs more deployable civilian capacity to assist a troubled country move towards stability. The

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• The Pentagon as Pitchman: Perceptions and Reality of Public Diplomacy

  Opinions on US public diplomacy and the Defense Department’s relationship to it are fairly polarized. Some fear that the Department of Defense drastically expanded efforts to

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• Presidential Inbox 2013: Execute the Defense Builddown

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  The Challenge:

  The US defense budget is getting smaller, but a declining defense budget does not have to mean a decline

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• The Pentagon as Pitchman: Perception and Reality of Public Diplomacy

  The Department of Defense has not institutionalized public diplomacy-like activities throughout its components, belying both hopes that it would internalize these broader

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• The Pentagon as Pitchman: Perception and Reality of Public Diplomacy

  The Department of Defense has not institutionalized public diplomacy-like activities throughout its components, belying both hopes that it would internalize these broader

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• Report Release: A New US Defense Strategy for a New Era

  The changing global security landscape and worsening fiscal outlook demand significant adjustments to national security strategy and budgeting, according to an extensive, year-long

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• A New US Defense Strategy for a New Era: Military Superiority, Agility, and Efficiency

  The changing global security landscape and worsening fiscal outlook demand significant adjustments to national security strategy and budgeting, according to an extensive, year-long

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• New Report: Diplomacy in a Time of Scarcity

  The United States faces unprecedented challenges in conducting diplomacy and development as it responds to the residuals of three wars and a constantly changing global environment. 

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• Diplomacy in a Time of Scarcity

  The United States faces unprecedented challenges in conducting diplomacy and development as it responds to the residuals of three wars and a constantly changing global environment. 

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• Resolving Ambiguity: Costing Nuclear Weapons

  As the defense budget comes under increasing pressure, many have suggested nuclear weapons as an area for savings. But estimates of what the United States spends on nuclear weapons

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• Striking the Deal

  Defense spending and the issue of sequestration are again in the public debate, as the presidential election campaign moves into high gear, and the start of a new fiscal year looms

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• Resolving Ambiguity: Costing Nuclear Weapons

  As the defense budget comes under increasing pressure, many have suggested nuclear weapons as an area for savings. But estimates of what the United States spends on nuclear weapons

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• A New Incentive

  President Obama released his budget request for fiscal year 2013 today, which starts October 1 of this year.  With it, he has added a new twist to the debate about our

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• The Reality of the Defense Builddown

  The President released the FY13 defense budget request today, and the total amount is $5B less than the FY12 appropriated levels. We are certainly into the defense builddown. But we

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• What We Bought: Defense Procurement from FY01 to FY10

  Prevailing wisdom on defense spending in the past decade asserts that despite the large amount spent, we did not modernize our weapons systems. In reality, the military services did

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• What We Bought: Defense Procurement from FY01 to FY10

  As the congressional super committee grapples with the problem of lowering the nation's deficit and controlling its debt, defense budgets have taken center stage.  Some have argued

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