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What Did the Rumsfeld/Gates Pentagon Do with $1 Trillion?
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| Analysis |
| August 30, 2010 |
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| In 1998, the Pentagon budget was at a twenty three year low at $361 billion (in constant 2010 dollars). For 2010, the DOD budget was $697 billion (also 2010 dollars, as are all the rest that follow), explains CDI's Winslow Wheeler.
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Winslow Wheeler
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Brass Creep: It's More Than Just Money
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| Analysis |
| August 13, 2010 |
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| Secretary of Defense Gates' recommendation to downsize the U.S. military's senior officer corps by a modest 5 percent, or 50 generals and admirals, is being discussed by the press as if it were a matter of bureaucratic efficiency and money. It should be seen as far more than just that. Militaries with proportionately large numbers of field and general grade officers have historically proven to be losers, not winners, in war. At its current levels, the U.S. military is among the worst, explains CDI's Straus Military Reform Project Director Winslow Wheeler. |
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Winslow Wheeler
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Winslow Wheeler's Take on Gates' Announcements
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| Analysis |
| August 11, 2010 |
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| Straus Military Reform Project Director Winslow Wheeler attended a meeting on Aug. 9 with Defense Secretary Gates following his press conference of DOD spending cuts and offers his analysis. |
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Winslow Wheeler
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The Perry/Hadley QDR Review
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| Opinion |
| August 2, 2010 |
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| I am a sometime participant in a large group of bloggers at the National Journal. This week's topic for comments caught my eye: what did we think of the "independent" review of DOD's Quadrennial Defense Review, just reported by a herd of former government officials with a few others?
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Winslow Wheeler
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The Affordability The Pentagon Says It Wants
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| Opinion |
| July 27, 2010 |
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| The July 19 Defense News ran a commentary by DOD's Ashton Carter describing the Pentagon's efforts to achieve what he called "affordability." Those efforts, if successful, will accomplish no such thing. Six other individuals, who are affiliated with six other organizations (see below), joined with me to respond to Mr. Carter. Our piece appears in the July 26 Defense News. We recommend five essential steps to achieve the "affordability" the Pentagon says it wants - and the reform necessary to ensure our defenses are viable, rather than merely business-as-usual at lower budget levels.
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Winslow Wheeler
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Dina Rasor on Reform
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| Opinion |
| July 6, 2010 |
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| Although she inflates my extremely minor role in the Barney Frank exercise, Dina Rasor has some important insights in the piece below from Truthout.com. Beyond replaying a little history, Dina importantly warns of the likely response of the business-as-usual crowd to outlast the new impulse for reform. |
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Winslow Wheeler
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On General Petraeus' Confirmation
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| Opinion |
| July 6, 2010 |
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| The Senate Armed Services Committee is likely to exercise as much oversight of General Petraeus' new nomination to replace General McChrystal as the committee has exercised in the recent past. |
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Can the Gaza Flotilla Fiasco Get Worse?
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| Opinion |
| June 15, 2010 |
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| The inevitable result of the regional reaction to the Israeli occupation and subsequent hegemony over Gaza, the fiasco at sea involving Israel and Turkey further unravels myopic U.S. policy in the Middle East - a long-term trend that threatens to become far worse than U.S. policy-makers appear willing to contemplate, or prepare against. U.S. Army Col. Douglas Macgregor (Ret.) explains in a commentary in the June 14 edition of Defense News. |
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Budget Nightmare at the Pentagon
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| Opinion |
| June 10, 2010 |
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| An extremely broad right-left coalition may be forming to bring real change to the Pentagon. Such change is not coming otherwise, explains Straus Military Reform Project Director Winslow Wheeler. |
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Winslow Wheeler
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Gates, Congress and Obama: Mutually Assured Debacle
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| May 27, 2010 |
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| At The Huffington Post find a new commentary by Winslow Wheeler on the unhappy direction now being taken in the debate over the Pentagon budget: mutually exclusive, short-term thinking is reinforcing all the worst in our "business-as-usual" approach.
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Winslow Wheeler
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