BARRY WATTS
Senior Fellow
Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
Barry Watts has contributed for decades to both the theories and practice of strategy. His
scholarly work includes Clausewitzian Friction and Future War (book, 1995); What the
Gulf War Can (and Cant) Tell us about the Future of Warfare (with T. Mahnken,
International Security, 1997); Military Innovation in Peacetime (with Wick Murray); and
Choosing Analytic Measures (with J. Roche, Journal of Security Studies, 1991). Prior to
joining CSBA in 2002, Barry Watts headed the Office of Program Analysis and Evaluation
at the Defense Department (2001–2002). Following retirement from the Air Force in 1986
until 2001, Mr. Watts was with the Northrop Grumman Analysis Center, which he directed
from 1997 to 2001. Mr. Watts has written on a wide variety of military topics, including
CSBA monographs on the Defense Industrial Base (2011 with Todd Harrison,); The
Revolution in Military Affairs (2011); Regaining Strategic Competence (2008 with Andrew
Krepinevich); The Case for Long-Range Strike (2008); and The Past and Future of the
Defense Industrial Base (2008).
Mr. Watts holds a BS in mathematics from the US Air Force Academy and an MA in
philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh.
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