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Think Tank Calls For Paring Defense Industry

Julie Samuel

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011

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A think tank is proposing that Pentagon choose up to seven parts of the U.S. defense-industrial base to sustain and then to “ruthlessly” slough off the remaining aspects. The non-partisan Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA), in a report its authors acknowledged will face resistance in the executive and legislative branches, argues the Pentagon needs an industrial-base policy that would result in the “adaptive sustainment” of only a select few yet vital elements of the defense-industrial base. The 81-page report suggests a strategy that…

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