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Mitchell Institute Paper Advises DoD Undertake Long-Range Strike Cost Effectiveness Study

Mitchell Institute Paper Advises DoD Undertake Long-Range Strike Cost Effectiveness Study
A B-52 carries a Lockheed Martin AGM-183 test weapon in the first captive carry flight over Edwards AFB, Calif. on June 12, 2019 (U.S. Air Force Photo)

A new paper by the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies and the Hudson Institute advises the Pentagon to undertake a study to determine the most cost-effective long-range strike systems to develop and field. "Reshaping the U.S. military to meet challenges in a renewed era of great power competition will require DOD to invest in capabilities that are fundamentally different from what it fielded for counter-terror and counterinsurgency operations over much of the past two decades," the paper says. "Doing so…

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