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Straus Military Reform Project
| Spinney and Buchanan on Obama's Afghanistan Quandary (Opinion) |
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October 7, 2009 |
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| The U.S. military and President Obama's advisors are limiting the options on the table for the predicament in Afghanistan. Perhaps unwittingly, perhaps not. Retired Pentagon insider Chuck Spinney explains in an introduction to an AntiWar.com piece by columnist Pat Buchanan. |
Straus Military Reform Project
| The Nixon-Biden Solution to Afghanistan (Opinion) |
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October 6, 2009 |
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| The Vietnam War offers lessons for the Obama administration's policy on Afghanistan, explains veteran defense journalist George Wilson in CongressDaily. |
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| The Illusion of Victory in Afghanistan (Opinion) |
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October 1, 2009 |
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| President Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates face tough decisions with Afghanistan on the precipice of failure, explains Douglas Macgregor, an advisor to CDI's Straus Military Reform Project. |
Missile Defense
| Obama's New Approach to Missile Defense in Europe (Analysis) |
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September 30, 2009 |
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| The Obama administration's recently announced "Phased, Adaptive Approach" to missile defense in Europe will strengthen ties with European allies and will provide for better security, explains CDI Research Assistant Jenny Shin. |
Straus Military Reform Project
| Inouye Not Giving Up (Opinion) |
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September 25, 2009 |
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| In Congress, Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, and others may appear to be conceding to the demands for program cuts by the Obama administration and Defense Secretary Gates, while in actuality not giving up the fight for their costly and wasteful pork projects, explains Straus Military Reform Project Director Winslow Wheeler. |
Straus Military Reform Project
| More Unanswered Questions (Opinion) |
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September 17, 2009 |
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| George C. Wilson poses many important questions about Afghanistan, all unanswered by the recent confirmation hearings to reappoint Adm. Michael Mullen as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in his column in CongressDaily's Forward Observer.
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Straus Military Reform Project
| An Excellent Book on Congress (Miscellaneous) |
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September 17, 2009 |
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| Winslow Wheeler, director of the Straus Military Reform Project, reviews Robert Kaiser's "So Damn Much Money: The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government." |
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| More on the Need for Veto of Pentagon Pork (Opinion) |
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September 16, 2009 |
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| The Henry L. Stimson Center in Washington, D.C. runs a blog on "National Security Spending." CDI's Straus Military Reform Project Director Winslow Wheeler recently participated with a statement about the defense budget. Wheeler chose to further address his reasoning on why President Obama should veto the DOD appropriations and authorization bills he may soon get from Congress. |
Straus Military Reform Project
| Obama and Defense Pork (Opinion) |
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September 15, 2009 |
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| Will President Obama and his administration really confront the defense porkers and their corrupt system in Congress? Winslow Wheeler of the Straus Military Reform Project analyzes Obama's recent history with defense cuts and the continuing pork problem in Congress. |
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