Russell Rumbaugh is quoted in Inside Defense on the Pentagon modernization spending
New Weapons Spending Holds ‘Steady’ Across Latest Five-Year Spending Plan March 12, 2014 The Pentagon’s fiscal year 2015 budget plan forecasts weapon system modernization spending to grow over five years…
When the Gift Becomes an Insult
…public statement of disapproval by the Army Chief, General Ashfaq Kiyani. To minimize further damage and to make the most of subsequent Congressional economic aid appropriations, it’s worth trying to…
Gordon Adams in Foreign Policy: Get Real
Earlier this week, the House Appropriations Committee introduced a continuing resolution to prevent a government shutdown, which assumes there will be no final agreement on a budget or on appropriations bills before…
Op-ed by Gordon Adams in Foreign Policy on U.S. Defense Budget
…through the House), and has pushed the defense appropriations bill through the House. Meanwhile, the Senate defense appropriations bill is out of committee and heading for the floor. That’s fast…
Broken Pivot: Examining Changes to the U.S. Diplomatic Footprint in the Indo-Pacific
…of State, Office of the Secretary of State, Congressional Budget Justification, Vol. 1: Department of State Operations, Fiscal Year 2011, https://2009-2017.state.gov/documents/organization/136355.pdf, Summary of Appropriations table, 8-9; Summary of Direct Funded…
Waypoints and Course Adjustments Towards Naval Shipbuilding Cooperation with South Korea
…NPR, April 25, 2024. https://www.npr.org/2024/04/25/1247095033/a-former-defense-official-warns-about-china-s-military-power; Eaglen, Mackenzie. “The U.S. Navy is falling behind China, and the Pentagon knows it.” American Enterprise Institute. Accessed March 20, 2025. https://www.aei.org/op-eds/the-u-s-navy-is-falling-behind-china-and-the-pentagon-knows-it/. The Pentagon’s own…
Waiting for the Code of Conduct
…up or down votes on the treaty and related appropriations in the first session of the new Congress in 2011. Otherwise, the longer Senate Republicans seek to derail New START,…
The Security Sector and Prospects for Change in the Middle East
…by US Security Coordinator Lt. General Keith W. Dayton before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, March 15, 2006. [4] Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on State,…