2024 Showdown: Expert Insights from the Presidential Debates
…speculation is worth scrutinizing more closely. Trump, for example, raised a valid point that countries in Europe could and should do more to stop that from happening, including by spending…
Gordon Adams quoted in Military Times on congressional handling of the defense budget
…called the continuing resolution a massive bookkeeping headache for the Pentagon. Among other problems, it leaves the question of what Congress will do with the Pentagon’s recent supplemental request for…
E-Consult on Global Climate Governance at the Intersection of Human Security & Justice
…for the establishment of a permanent secretariat for ENMOD. Furthermore, contributors called for opening a supplemental intergovernmental forum to UNFCCC, to identify, based on the latest IPCC report, which climate…
Rethink US Grand Strategy
…with an ever-expanding set of missions. The Commission calls for spending far more, and argues that “increased security spending should be accompanied by additional taxes and reforms to entitlement spending.”…
Defense Spending and the Economy: Does the Defense Dollar Make a Difference?
…Defense Department and by the critics of defense spending. The impact on the economy of changes in defense spending is affected but the context within which such changes occur. This…
India’s Defense Indigenization: An Emerging Arms Exporter?
…lists contain not just spare assembly parts but the complete weapon system for big ticket products like naval utility helicopters, medium anti-ship missiles, drones, artillery guns, and lightweight tanks. All…
As Modi plans US trip, defence on everyone’s mind
…for information-sharing agreements, and pave the way for more substantive exchanges by both civilian and military leaders. Washington expects new defence sales to be advanced during Modi’s visit. While big-ticket…
Russell Rumbaugh is quoted in National Defense on US Air Force manpower cuts
…worry that, in the face of flat or declining budgets, the cost of people will eat into big-ticket weapons that the Air Force wants to buy over the coming decades….