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Posted On: Mar 13, 2010
Does America really need to spend $700 billion on defense? Defense Budget Resources 2011 – a new resource compilation from the Project on Defense Alternatives – provides one-stop access to critical analysis and opinion from 30 analysts and policy centers, representing the skeptical end of the spectrum. War costs, defense reform, acquisition issues, private contractors, and economic impact are among the topics covered in reports, short-opinion pieces, charts, and tables. The page ...
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Posted On: Mar 09, 2010
www.natowatch.orgJournalists and researchers writing about NATO need to be able to quickly find accurate and reliable information at their fingertips. Congressmen and women and members of the public need to keep up to date with developments in an Alliance that impacts on over 890 million citizens within the 28 Member States - a number that increases to 20 per cent of the global population when Partner ...
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Posted On: Feb 18, 2010
This op-ed posting argues that the QDR should explicitly link strategic goals with fiscal projections, even if that means amending the law that created it. Disconnecting military planning from fiscal realities is not just bad economics—its bad strategy.
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Posted On: Feb 01, 2010
The Stanley Foundation seeks a Program Associate for a 24-month limited-term position to work in support of the foundation’s overall goal of promoting principled multilateralism in international affairs, which is at the core of all foundation programming. In particular, this position will involve: * Substantive and administrative support work for the Stanley Foundation’s various policy and outreach activities on US foreign policy and global security issues. * Support of the Stanley Foun...
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Posted On: Jan 21, 2010
A briefing memo from the Project on Defense Alternatives. The United States faces Reagan-level deficit spending and greatly increased debt. Can the president's program of high defense spending and increased non-defense spending survive? This brief report puts recent and planned defense spending into the context of emerging fiscal constraints and President Obama's broader program of change. 11 charts and tables.
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Posted On: Jan 21, 2010
This Project on Defense Alternatives report analyzes the unprecedented post-1998 rise in defense spending and the return to Cold War budget levels. The causes include overly ambitious US military strategy and goals; weakness of reform and transformation efforts; failure to make hard choices in acquisition; and conduct of wars ill-suited to the US military. Also examined: the surge in military construction and the expanded role of private contractors. 75 pages with Executive Summary and 21 cha...
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Posted On: Jan 21, 2010
In a briefing on January 21, 2010, Sue Veres Royal, co-director of U.S. in the World, presented recent findings about effective messaging for advocates working on human rights in the context of national security. The presentation, with the presenter's notes, are attached.
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Posted On: Jan 19, 2010
This memo aims to reinforce the strategic logic of the Topos Partnership's research (including by highlighting selected findings) and to reinforce connections between the research findings and the work of the National Security and Human Rights Campaign, with special attention to bridging some of the initial "disconnects" that seem to be coming up for advocates who have started to grapple with the implications of the research.
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Posted On: Jan 11, 2010
Monthly newsletter focusing on NATO policy-making and operational activities. The clips are drawn from a wide range of subscriptions, feeds and alerts covering a substantial part of the major English language newspapers and other periodicals worldwide
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Posted On: Jan 07, 2010
Overspent and OverextendedWritten by Doug Bandow, a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. Why is Washington spending so much on the military?The U.S. dominates the globe militarily. America's reach exceeds that of the Roman and British Empires at their respective heights. The threats facing the U.S. pale compared to its capabilities. So why is Washington spending so much on the military?The military budget is the price we pay for the nation's foreign policy. The U.S. currently is spending ne...
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Posted On: Jan 06, 2010
DATE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2009 MR. LYNN: Thanks very much, Nancy. Nancy had a way of working with Senator Kennedy. As you know, he had an unforgettable speaking style. Face reddened and fist pounding-that Boston Brahmin accent. You might think that all came naturally, and usually it did. But occasionally, on one topic or another, he might lag a bit. And Nancy would anticipate that. You have to remember, on the Senate floor, there's nobody there, so there's no excitement. So...
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Posted On: Jan 06, 2010
Posted by Christopher PrebleThat is the question posed at the National Journal’s National Security experts blog.My response:We shouldn’t even be contemplating war in Yemen, but we should also understand that the proposed expansion of security assistance to the government there is likely to pay only meager dividends.Steven Metz gets at the nub of this problem in his two thoughtful posts (here and here). We have an unreliable ally. We have minimal capacity for making them more reliable....
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Posted On: Jan 05, 2010
A December 2009 report from the Charity and Security Network describes how U.S. nonprofits are hindered from being an ally against violent extremism due to burdensome CTMs.
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Posted On: Dec 23, 2009
by Doug Bandow, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. Afghanistan is the sort of country which humanitarian-minded people understandably want to "fix." It has become a target of aggressive pro-war activists ranging from neoconservatives who believe in remaking other societies at gunpoint to feminists who believe in waging war to improve the status of women.The latter group belies the common assumption that the Left opposes war. While the Right traditionally resisted imperialistic social engi...
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Posted On: Dec 14, 2009
by Doug BandowDoug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. A former special assistant to President Reagan, he is the author of Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World (Cato Institute) and co-author of The Korean Conundrum: America's Troubled Relations with North and South Korea (Palgrave/Macmillan).Special envoy Stephen Bosworth has returned from Pyongyang after what he called "exploratory talks, not negotiations" over North Korea's nuclear program. Before that t...
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Posted On: Dec 08, 2009
The fourth edition of NATO Watch’s bi-monthly Observatory newsletter. Our focus is on NATO policy-making and operational activities and the clips are drawn from a wide range of subscriptions, feeds and alerts covering a substantial part of the major English language newspapers and other periodicals worldwide.
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Posted On: Dec 02, 2009
Policy ForumThursday, December 3, 4:00 p.m. Featuring Julian Sanchez, Research Fellow, Cato Institute; Gregory Nojeim, Senior Counsel, The Center for Democracy and Technology; Jena Baker McNeill, Homeland Security Policy Analyst, The Heritage Foundation; and Richard Samp, Chief Counsel, Washington Legal Foundation. Moderated by Tim Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato InstituteAbout the event - Congress is presently moving to renew several provisions of the USA...
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Posted On: Nov 19, 2009
The Stanley Foundation seeks a program officer for its Policy and Outreach Department. The chosen candidate will conceptualize, design, and implement programming that focuses on strengthening multilateral approaches to peace and security and building support for multilateralism, especially in the United States. Foundation programming in this area relies heavily on expert dialogues (dialogues include US and foreign officials, influential scholars, journalists, and NGO leaders). It also include...
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Posted On: Nov 16, 2009
Ploughshares Fund is seeking an intern for the Spring Semester. Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, conducting research on arms control and international security for articles, books and testimonies, as well as aiding in the daily operations of the Ploughshares Washington office. The intern will report directly to the Project Manager. Responsibilities- Provide research support to the President and Project Manager - Carry out web-based research on arms control and...
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Posted On: Nov 09, 2009
NATO Watch bi-monthly Observatory with a focus on NATO policy-making and operational activities. The clips are drawn from a wide range of subscriptions, feeds and alerts covering a substantial part of the major English language newspapers and other periodicals world.
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