Cyber Scam Centers: A Growing Flashpoint in China-Myanmar Relations
…known for tracking censorship and protests in China, transferred the spreadsheet to Google Docs, where it remains accessible. To date, it includes over 1500 victims and their families impacted by…
Five Myths About Defense Spending
…organizations in Virginia’s Tidewater region. Local politics trumped efficiency. 2. The larger the Pentagon’s budget, the safer we are. Excessive defense spending can make us less secure, not more. Countries…
The Defense Research Funding Environment: A Conversation
…Defense budget annually in adjusted dollars if you were to go back in time. But we were essentially spending what we spend on the entire Defense Department now per year….
Consulting the American People on National Defense Spending
…spending is rather modest and that as a percentage of GDP, defense spending is low and has been on the decline for decades now. Advocates of defense cuts argue that…
Scenarios for US Foreign Aid in 2035
…Europe is constrained by sluggish growth and high defense spending requirements, having neither appetite nor capacity to spend money abroad. European spending on foreign aid does not significantly rebound from…
Bring the National Defense Strategy into Balance
…in 2023 and are roughly equal in personnel with the Russian armed forces, despite Russia increasing defense spending and expanding its military amid the war in Ukraine. European countries have…
When the Cards Are on the Table, Will the UN Stand By the Interns?
…on “Managing the 2025 regular budget liquidity crisis” outlined the need to reduce $400 million in spending through December. The memo referred to a letter from Secretary-General Antonio Guterres suggesting…
Japan chose a new leader: what can we expect from Shinzo Abe?
…robust US-Japan alliance, national defense spending increase, constitutional revision that would allow Japan Self-Defense Force (JSDF)’s legal status to be converted to a national defense force (kokubo-gun) and enable Japan…