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As Lawmakers Tackle Defense Reform, Experts Suggest Changes of Their Own

Valerie Insinna

Monday, March 14th, 2016

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As Lawmakers Tackle Defense Reform, Experts Suggest Changes of Their Own

A day before House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) is set to roll out his second defense reform proposal, experts from the Center for Strategic and International Studies on Monday put forward their own recommendations, which included creating a new experimentation fund and the establishment of U.S. Cyber Command as an independent combatant command.Guided foremost by the idea to “do no harm,” the CSIS experts eschewed some of the more sweeping suggestions made by former military and Defense…

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