Program

Budgeting for Foreign Affairs and Defense

Strengthening the capacity and capability of the US government to improve American national security at a lower cost to the American people

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About the Program

Projects

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Recent Publications

Report

Counterterrorism Spending: Protecting America while Promoting Efficiencies and Accountability

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Issue Brief

Overseas Contingency Operations: The Pentagon’s $80 Billion Loophole

Report

Military Spending for A New Strategic Reality

Commentary

Matching Forces to an Uncertain Future

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Report

B61 Life Extension Program: Costs and Policy Considerations

Policy Paper

Presentation to the Strategic Deterrent Coalition Symposium

Commentary

Laicie Heeley Federal News Radio interview on OCO

Report

Defense Divided: Overcoming the Challenges of Overseas Contingency Operations

Commentary

A Firewalled Nuke Fund Is Bad Budgeting and Bad Planning

Commentary

Obama Should Return His Nobel Peace Prize

Commentary

Nuclear Security Grand Challenge

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Commentary

Debunking the Republicans’ Defense Budget Revisionism

Experts

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Events

Past Events

US Counterterrorism Spending Since 9/11

RSVP HERE Sixteen years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States does not have a fully accurate measure of how much it is spending on the fight against terrorism….

  • May 16, 2018
  • Time TBD
  • Location TBD

Past Events

Examining the Strategic Implications of Trump’s First Budget

  • May 24, 2017
  • 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
  • Location TBD

Past Events

Chairman’s Forum with US Rep. Adam Smith

  • September 22, 2016
  • 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m.
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Past Events

Previewing Obama’s Visit to Hiroshima

  • May 19, 2016
  • 11:30 A.M. - 12:30 P.M.
  • Location TBD