In case you missed them, the Center published two op-eds yesterday. The first, on defense budget sequestration, appeared in Roll Call. In it, Lt. Gen. Robert Gard and I argue that: Rather than spin its wheels or continue to pretend that sequestr…
Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Endorses Afghanistan Study Group Report
On September 15, the board of the Council for a Livable World and the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation endorsed the August 16th report from the Afghanistan Study Group. The report, entitled: A New Way Forward—Rethinking the U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan, argues that the current U.S. strategy in Afghanistan is not vitally essential to […]
Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Assessment of Iraq
Before the U.S. invasion in 2003, warnings about an insurgency developing in Iraq after Saddam Hussein’s regime fell were ignored by the Bush administration. Lacking training in counterinsurgency operations, U.S. armed forces initially used aggressive offensive tactics employing heavy firepower and ignored the two fundamental principles of counterinsurgency operations: create a secure environment for the […]
North Korea: Small Step Forward, Many More to Go
Published in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. BY DUYEON KIM Article Highlights In reaching an agreement with the United States, North Korea took a small positive step, but details of and compliance with the latest agreement will be key in determining whether Pyongyang is serious about denuclearization. The simultaneously released statements from the United […]
[Op-Ed] North Korea: Small Step Forward, Many More to Go
by Duyeon Kim Published in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on March 1, 2012. North Korea: Small step forward, many more to go Article Highlights In reaching an agreement with the United States, North Korea took a small positive step, but details of and compliance with the latest agreement will be key in […]
