Unlimited National Security Spending Doesn’t Make Us Safer
The Senate Armed Services Committee recently voted to inflate national security spending by $25 billion, a dangerous increase to an already superfluous budget. Spearheaded by Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker, the…
Gordon Adams is quoted by Bloomberg News on defense spending
Defense industry lobbyists are bearing down on members of Congress in a bid to avert $52 billion in automatic spending cuts, part of a series of reductions that threaten to…
Aspirations Amidst Uncertainty: The Ten-Year US-Ukraine Security Agreement
…agreement would still require Congressional appropriations, which have proven increasingly difficult to achieve in recent months. Given President Trump’s strong skepticism of continuing military support for Ukraine and the divisiveness…
Off the Charts (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities) cites article by Gordon Adams
The House is scheduled today to consider the 2014 defense appropriations bill, which is at the heart of the House’s misguided approach to addressing the inadequate funding for discretionary programs…
Nuclear Security News and Member Updates, December 2022
…Bill and NDAA: “Congress passed and President Joe Biden (D) on Friday signed an appropriations bill that sets the Department of Energy’s fiscal year 2023 budget at $46.2 billion and…
Barry Blechman’s op-ed on US defense budget realities is published in International Business Times
…a comprehensive fiscal deal will be reached, President Barack Obama, the House and the Senate have all offered budgets and appropriations bills that fund defense well above the caps set…
Taming the Vulture: Turning Distressed-Debt Investors into Agents of Social Change
…security community has rested on its innovation laurels and has failed to generate new approaches whose implementation is not dependant upon bigger government appropriations to existing national security agencies. Meanwhile,…
Lincoln P. Bloomfield quoted in Breaking Defense on the future of the U.S. Army
…tri-service conference on “Strategic Landpower.” -snip- “The problem you have is, what’s the elevator speech for the senators on the appropriations committee?” said Lincoln Bloomfield Jr., chairman of the Stimson Centerboard and a…