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March 10, 2015
David Petraeus and the Hypocrisies of National Security: The CIA’s Double Standard
The new poster child for the CIA’s double standard is none other than former CIA director General David Howell Petraeus, who escaped a jail sentence despite providing eight notebooks of highly classified information, including names of covert operatives, to his biographer-mistress Paula Broadwell... READ MORE »
February 13, 2015
Reform Pentagon Acquisition By Slowing Down the F-35
by William D. Hartung
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Ashton Carter, the incoming next defense secretary, agree on one thing – the need for acquisition reform at the Pentagon. They should start by looking at the F-35 program... READ MORE »
February 6, 2015
Five Ways to Save Money at the Pentagon
by William D. Hartung
The Obama administration’s budget proposal for FY 2016 is $35 billion higher than the caps set out in current law. Over the next decade the mismatch between what the Pentagon wishes it had and what it is likely to get is even greater. Something will have to give. There are at least five ways the Pentagon’s proposal can be brought into line with budgetary reality... READ MORE »
January 31, 2015
Put the Pentagon On a Real Budget
by William D. Hartung
It's budget season again, which means it's time for another round of budget gimmicks on the part of the Pentagon. The Obama administration's new Pentagon budget proposal exceeds the budget caps established in current law by $34 billion. That's a hefty sum even by Pentagon standards... READ MORE »
February 27, 2015
Don't Defund, Just Dismantle the Department of Homeland Security
The Republican majority has refused to approve new funding for the Department of Homeland Security. Following the lead of the party’s most conservative members, congressional Republicans will reject a new DHS budget unless President Obama reverses his November 2014 executive order to protect more than 4 million immigrants from deportation. Republicans are right to obstruct the routine annual funding of DHS—but they are doing it for the wrong reasons... READ MORE »
February 14, 2015
Why Should We Listen to Neoconservatives Who Criticize Obama?
by William D. Hartung
We will be living with the consequences of our disastrous intervention in Iraq for years to come. The last thing we should do is double down on the policies that got us into our current predicament in the first place... READ MORE »
February 10, 2015
Rein In the Pentagon's Military Aid Programs
by William D. Hartung
Arming and training foreign military and police forces is serious business. The principal goal of these programs is to bolster allies and promote stability. But this form of assistance too often fails to meet its objectives. Done poorly, it can fuel conflicts, enable human rights abuses, and draw the United States into unnecessary wars... READ MORE »
February 5, 2015
What Makes Salvador Brazil's Most Violent City
by Sarah Kinosian
Despite Salvador's economic boom in recent years, problems like economic inequality, racial tensions, and unemployment persist, feeding crime and violence. As murder rates and drug use continue to climb in northern Brazil, it looks like those who live on the periphery of Bahia's capital will likely remain vulnerable to the whims of the underworld... READ MORE »
January 30, 2015
Benjamin Netanyahu: the Anti-American Obstructionist
There are Israeli officials who believe that Netanyahu has gone too far this time. The only way to lend some credibility to our concerns and the concerns of those Israelis is to adopt a tougher stand on issues of concern. President Obama may find that there is more support than he expects, both at home and abroad for standing up to the intransigence of the Israeli Prime Minister... READ MORE »
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