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June 20, 2019
POLITICO: Morning Defense, 6/19/2019
by David Brown
The Center for International Policy and the Sustainable Defense Task Force hold a discussion at 10:30 on a report titled "A Sustainable Defense: More Security, Less Spending," which details how the U.S. can cut over $1.2 trillion in projected Pentagon spending over the next decade while improving national security...
June 19, 2019
Mighty Earth becomes a member of ResponsibleSteel
Glenn Hurowitz quoted
Environmental organisation Mighty Earth has officially become a member of ResponsibleSteel, a global, multi-stakeholder, not-for-profit standard and certification initiative for the responsible sourcing and production of steel. Mighty Earth has joined ResponsibleSteel to help address the outsized climate impact of steel and the entire heavy industrial sector. It is the first US-based organisation to join the initiative...
June 21, 2019
Daily On Defense: 6/20/19
William Hartung quoted
The report, “Sustainable Defense: More Security, Less Spending,” argues that contrary to conventional Pentagon wisdom, the U.S. military has been adequately funded during the period since 2011 in which the Budget Control Act imposed spending caps...
June 20, 2019
How the Pentagon can save over $1.2 trillion
William Hartung quoted
The report, “Sustainable Defense: More Security, Less Spending, ” offers new strategies that challenge the National Defense Strategy by encouraging more diplomacy (specifically in regard to the Iran nuclear deal) and less military confrontation to cut costs. It also says the NDS “exaggerate[s] the challenges posed by major powers” like China and Russia...
June 20, 2019
Will Raytheon Derail Pentagon Reform?
by William Hartung
It’s been 58 years since President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his speech about “unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.” That complex is if anything growing in influence in recent years, thanks in no small part to President Trump...
June 16, 2019
Moon Jae-in: stuck between a rock and a hard place on North Korea
by Henri Féron
On June 15, 2000, the leaders of South and North Korea met for the first time and discussed what then seemed like imminent reunification. Nineteen years on, the dream of a united Korea slips further and further away...
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