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| June 29, 2009 |
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Mother Jones: Shock and Audit (Opinion)
From June 22 to 26, Mother Jones magazine ran an extraordinary five-part series on the problems that decay our national defenses at ever-increasing, now gigantic, cost.
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| June 17, 2009 |
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Spigot Wide Open (Opinion)
In a June 10 commentary in The Washington Post, Michael O'Hanlon argued that President Obama's plans for the defense budget are "insufficient to support the national security establishment over the next five years."
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| June 5, 2009 |
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Pentagon Officials Point Out Flaws in Missile Defense Programs (Analysis)
Recent statements by Pentagon officials point out flaws in the technical and operational concepts of missile defense programs that have been cut in the Fiscal Year 2010 missile defense budget request. Their statements should provide a realistic look at the current and future state of the ballistic missile defense system, explains CDI Research Assistant Jenny Shin.
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| June 3, 2009 |
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Good Advice (Opinion)
Military reformer William S. Lind (not to be confused with the anti-reformer Raytheon lobbyist now in the Pentagon as the Deputy Secretary of Defense, William Lynn) has written an excellent piece of advice for President Obama. While one might want to quibble with whether some of the people now incarcerated in Guantanamo should be tried as criminals, rather than held as prisoners of war, the central theme of Lind's thinking is the essence of winning in human conflict. It comes directly from the founder of the military reform movement, Col. John R. Boyd, who died in 1997: thinking and operating at the moral level in Iraq and Afghanistan, and elsewhere, is the key. To stoop to lower levels, such as the un-American behavior pushed by former Vice President Cheney, is a sure route to defeat, explains Lind in a June 3, 2009 commentary published on AntiWar.com.
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| May 26, 2009 |
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How the U.S. Can Fully Engage Pyongyang in Negotiations (Opinion)
In the wake of the recent missile and nuclear tests by North Korea, the old approach of assuming the imminent collapse of the communist regime needs to be discarded in search of new paths to substantive negotiations, explains CDI Research Assistant Ezekiel Tan.
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| May 4, 2009 |
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The Defense Monitor, Volume XXXVIII - April/May/June 2009 (Reports)
Global Zero Kicks-Off Successfully in Paris in Advance of Historic U.S.-Russia Announcement • Congress Reintroduces Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act • The Moment for Eliminating Nuclear Weapons is Now • The Problem of Pork at the Pentagon • Assist the U.S. Economy: Cut the Defense Budget • DOE Complex Transformation Program
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| December 5, 2008 |
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New Policy Briefing Book Released for Presidential Transition Teams (Briefing)
The "2009 National Security and Nonproliferation Briefing Book" was prepared by the Peace and Security Initiative and released in November 2008. Included in the briefing book are the pieces "Taking Nuclear Forces Off Day-to-Day Alert," by WSI President Bruce Blair and CDI Senior Analyst Victoria Samson, and "Missile Defense," by CDI Senior Adviser Philip Coyle.
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| November 4, 2008 |
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The Other Meltdown: Little to Show for Huge Defense Budgets (Opinion)
The financial and economic collapse, our deeply flawed healthcare system, the gridlock in Washington, two long wars not going well, and long-term, fundamental problems with energy and Social Security do not complete the list of raging crises the new president must face. Add the ever expanding cost of America's shrinking, aging, less ready military forces, now approaching the meltdown stage. The nature of the problems our defenses face and the basic nature of some possible real solutions are outlined in a commentary Winslow Wheeler wrote for the Nov. 3, 2008 issue of Defense News.
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| October 29, 2008 |
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Space Security Update #7: Oct. 10, 2008 (Briefing)
No Separate Command For AFCYBER • It’s Official: Galileo Can Have Military Users • U.S. Seeking Out Cyber Warriors • Fourth SBIRS Satellite to be Bought • Israel Hoping for Commercial Funding for Its Milsat Programs • TSAT Delayed, Again • SpaceX’s Falcon I Goes Into Orbit • Chinese Astronauts Successfully Perform Spacewalk • Cuba and Venezuela May Join GLONASS • U.S. in Need of Official Space Strategy • India’s Space Program Blasting Off • DoD Decides to Acquire Two Commercial-Class Spy Satellites • Future of the New Cyber Command Uncertain • Leery of the Millennials?
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| October 8, 2008 |
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Missile Defense in Poland a Frivolous Move (Opinion)
Russia’s use of SS-21 ballistic missiles in the recent conflict with Georgia and Iran’s series of missile tests earlier this summer created two very big misconceptions among missile defense supporters. In a recent article for the Citizen-Times, CDI Senior Analyst Victoria Samson analyzes these misconceptions and outlines how they have laid the foundation for a future U.S. foreign policy blunder that could have long-term and grave consequences.
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| September 18, 2008 |
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It's Not Just the Bases - or the Nukes
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A series of commentaries is being sponsored on the Mother Jones website about the sprawl of American military bases around the world and the implications. Straus Military Reform Project Director Winslow Wheeler contributed to this series with a piece entitled "It's Not Just the Bases - or the Nukes."
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| September 16, 2008 |
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Ask McCain and Obama about Missile Defense (Opinion)
Since President Reagan’s famous “Star Wars” speech in 1983, the U.S. has spent at least $120 billion, $110 billion just since 2003, on missile defense, making it the most expensive defense procurement program in history. Philip Coyle, Senior Advisor for Center for Defense Information, analyzes the future of the U.S. missile defense program, particularly in light of the 2008 presidential elections.
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| August 29, 2008 |
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Countdown to Air Force Cyber Command Stopped (Analysis)
Air Force Cyber Command (AFCYBER) was intended to become operational Oct. 1, 2008, but the launch of this controversial command has been halted. The Air Force's new leadership has wisely decided to evaluate the command's mission, capabilities and size to be sure that if continued, it will be a reasonable and legitimate command. Although all efforts related to AFCYBER have been suspended, many Air Force officials are confident the command will continue. The Air Force's new Chief of Staff along with the Joint Chiefs of Staff should have a decision on AFCYBER this month. CDI Research Assistant Chelsea Dilley analyzes this recent halt in Air Force Cyber Command development.
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| July 16, 2008 |
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2002 DOD Missile Defense Memorandum (Reports)
The Department of Defense memorandum outlining the missile defense program direction and that of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) can be found at the Federation of American Scientists website.
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