For Immediate Release May 16, 2018 Contact: Audel Shokohzadeh, [email protected], 202.478.3419 Washington, DC: From 2002 to 2017, the United States spent $2.8 trillion on counterterrorism, including $175 billion in 2017 —an eleven-fold increase over 2 …
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The United States currently lacks an accurate accounting of how much it has spent on the fight against terrorism. Without accurate data, policymakers will have difficulty evaluating whether the nation spends too much or too little on …
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. Stimson’s nonpartisan study group has for the first time, pro …
First it was Senate Armed Services Chairman John McCain, R-Ariz. Then came the drafters of President Trump’s fiscal 2018 budget request. Now it’s an ideologically diverse roster of think tank defense specialists urging a long-reluctant Congress to grab …
Both Republican and Democratic presidents have used overseas contingency operations (OCO) funds to bolster the Defense Department’s budget, lately outside of the Budget Control Act rules. This year is no different. Laicie Heeley, a fellow at the Stimso …
The Trump administration’s defense budget has ushered in a new era of fiscal irresponsibility. Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO), once a designation meant to increase transparency and shield war spending from the threat of sequestration, has risen …
The Trump administration’s fiscal 2017 supplemental request and Congress’ resulting appropriation have ushered in a new era of budgetary irresponsibility. Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO), once a designation meant to increase transparency and shie …
The Pentagon will spend the next several months gearing up for a mission so complicated that many officials doubt it can be pulled off, an undertaking so immense that the military hasn’t once dared to try it before. -snip- What has prevented the Pentag …
The latest news out of our nation’s capital: We’ll discuss the firing of the FBI director, the fate of Obamacare, potential tax cuts, and more. Guests: Jeanne Cummings, national political reporter for The Wall Street Journal Gordon Adams, Prof. Em …
Watch the event video below or click here. The Trump administration is expected to send the full details of its first budget to Congress on May 22, but the topline details have already angered Democrats and Republicans alike. The proposal, which may be …
Democrats delivered a win on the budget this week. The $1.1 trillion spending bill Congress unveiled provided an additional $15 billion in war spending, less than the $30 billion the Trump administration had requested. In exchange for the smaller incre …
Congress is poised to avert a government shutdown this week with a fiscal year 2017 omnibus appropriations bill that boosts the Pentagon’s warfighting account by $15 billion, which is only half of what the Trump administration had sought, setting the s …
While the potential government shutdown is drawing headlines this week, President Trump’s proposed 2018 budget should be raising even more eyebrows. Simply put: Trump’s proposed radical cuts to foreign aid would worsen the Syrian crisis and undermine t …
President Trump’s budget proposal was already dead when it arrived at the Capitol dome Thursday morning. Trump, like his predecessors, used his first budget as a blueprint to present a vision for his term. But the parameters have angered Demo …
By Gordon Adams and Richard Sokolsky Congress and the chattering class have been in high dudgeon over the past several days about President Donald Trump’s proposal to make deeps cuts in the budgets of the State Department and the U.S. Agency for Intern …
By Richard Sokolsky and Gordon Adams The Trump administration has worked itself into a frenzy as to how much (or how little) our NATO allies spend on defense and whether the alliance is, as a result, a “good deal” for the United States. President Donal …
The world has entered a new era of “gray zone” conflicts, ongoing shadow wars that present great strategic risk to the United States and the international community. In the midst of this new strategic reality, the role the United States will take in sh …