by Katie Mounts by Travis Sharp The sale of high-tech Joint Direct Attack Munitions weaponry to Saudi Arabia, unveiled in January 2008 as part of a larger $20 billion U.S. weapons package headed to the Middle East, is yet another example of the United States substituting arms sales for vigorous international diplomacy. Maybe this should […]
Highlights of Congressional Action on National Security in 2007
by Kingston Reif Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) Program (Click here for more) Administration Request: $88.8 million for the Department of Energy; $30 million for the Department of Defense Final Action: $0 for the Department of Energy; $15 million for the Department of Defense Reprocessing Nuclear Waste (Click here for more) Administration Request: $405 million Final […]
‘Appalling Gap’ in Homeland Security Raises Concerns
The war in Iraq and Afghanistan has already cost the United States upward of $700 billion – but we can’t afford the war in more ways than just monetary value. A recent report issued by the congressionally-mandated Commission on the National Guard and Reserves concluded that there is an “appalling gap” in our readiness to […]
A Permanent Presence? Dangers of a Long-Term U.S. Security Commitment to Iraq
by John Isaacs by Travis Sharp Download the PDF version of this fact sheet Click here BACKGROUND On November 26, 2007, President George Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki released a “Declaration of Principles for a Long-Term Relationship of Cooperation and Friendship between the Republic of Iraq and the United States of America.” […]
Do We Still Need the Big Guns?
by Travis Sharp Published online in the New York Times on January 16, 2008 Re “We Still Need the Big Guns,” by Charles J. Dunlap Jr. (Op-Ed, Jan. 9): To the Editor: Many commentators have glorified Gen. David H. Petraeus’s counterinsurgency manual as the second coming of George Kennan’s famous “X” article. This effusive praise […]
