Mekong Dam Monitor: Methods and Processes
…days). The research team identifies water clusters with the classified image (see image 1). The Google Earth Engine code can be found here. Image 1: Stimson uses Google Earth Engine…
AI Unleashed: Techno-Sovereignty and the Rules Deficit
…challenges. Although the technology is still in its early stages, Open AI, Google, and a host of other Big Tech companies and startups are intensifying their efforts to commercially deploy…
Overseas Contingency Operations: The Pentagon’s $80 Billion Loophole
…OCO spending, a 41 percent increase over the previous fiscal year. President Trump’s initial $30 billion supplemental request for fiscal 2017 included $5 billion in OCO-designated funds and $25 billion…
Pandemic Response: Leveraging Multilateral Assets with U.S. Financial Diplomacy
…programs ($1 billion) as part of a 12% increase in non-defense international affairs spending from FY21 enacted levels. The Budget Request “includes $250.0 million funded through the State Department’s Global…
Law and Policy Guide to US Arms Transfers to Israel
…Representative Bowman (D-N.Y.) included a Section 502B(c) request in a proposed amendment to the House of Representatives’ Israel appropriations supplemental that the House passed on November 2 and that remains under consideration in the…
Sustaining Funding for Myanmar’s Spring Revolution
…percent to $2.7 billion at official rates, accounting for 30 percent of government spending.36The FY2022-23 figure did not include a MMK 440 billion supplemental budget increase in December 2022. “Myanmar…
Counterterrorism Spending: Protecting America while Promoting Efficiencies and Accountability
…metrics that show Congress and the public the scope of counterterrorism spending relative to total discretionary spending and total spending, including mandatory spending. 2. Adopt a detailed agencywide definition for counterterrorism…
The Ugly Truth about the Permanent War Economy
…Require Unsustainable Future Spending,” (Washington, D.C.: Stimson Center, July 2024), https://www.stimson.org/2024/current-defense-plans-require-unsustainable-future-spending/; Stephen Semler, “A Pentagon budget of $1 trillion is looming. Here’s how to stop it,” The Hill, accessed September…