A Trillion Dollars Annually for the Pentagon: Military Spending is Out of Control
…budget proposal, Pentagon spending will total over $1 trillion a year. There are two factors that virtually guarantee that defense spending will never dip below that mark again. The first…
Russell Rumbaugh quoted at Stars and Stripes on DOD spending cuts
…332-94 – a vote total yelled out happily by Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) – for a two-year federal budget that will set spending at $1.012 trillion for the 2014 fiscal…
Myanmar’s Prospects One Year after the Coup
…as the line between state-owned and military-owned blurs more and as government spending becomes equivalent to military spending, it will become harder to avoid sanctions’ unintended repercussive consequences towards the…
Build a More Effective Military Force
…is the throughline between many of the Pentagon’s past acquisition failures, including the F-35 program, the Littoral Combat Ship, and the Constellation-class frigate. The Pentagon’s expansive defense plans produce unrealistic…
Gordon Adams quoted in Politico Obama’s grip on Pentagon spending
…and Congress once again openly conspiring to undo tough spending decisions made by the White House and the Pentagon. -snip- Added Gordon Adams, a defense budget official in the Clinton…
Iran Escalates Nuclear Standoff by Suspending Cooperation with IAEA
…12-day war with Israel and the U.S. and years of attacks against Iranian scientists and infrastructure. Iranian legislation suspending all voluntary cooperation with the IAEA represents a rupture in nonproliferation…
Three Big Questions for the 2025 NATO Summit
…day, Trump may be eager to take any spending concession from this summit as a ‘win.’ Yet Republican voters are increasingly skeptical of NATO, and whether increased spending will be…
A New Incentive
…on the amount of spending in each category. But where in the 1990s the budget was divided between defense spending and non-defense spending with each category having its own cap,…