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6 unusual facts about Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments


Andrew Krepinevich

is a defense policy analyst who currently serves as President of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.

Following his retirement from the Army, Krepinevich assumed his current position as director of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a non-profit think tank focused on defense and national security issues.

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments

In 2007, the CSBA's director, Andrew Krepinevich, admitted that it had hired Alexis Debat as a consultant; the man, who worked at Nixon Center and for ABC News, had been revealed by French newspaper Rue 89 as a fraud, leading to his dismissal from all responsibilities.

” In May 1995, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments was incorporated in its current form under the leadership of Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr.

Robert O. Work (Col, USMC, ret.), former Vice President for Strategic Studies, now Under Secretary of the Navy (1998-2009)

Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr., (LTC, USA, ret.) President, (1993 to present)


AirSea Battle

Marshall's office works closely with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) led by Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Krepinevich, whose outfit helped coin the phrase AirSea Battle.

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

According to Todd Harrison, a defense analyst with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, in 2005, “when they made their initial estimates of what it would cost … they did their best estimate …. A lot of things have changed since then. Construction costs have gone up."


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