Read the full piece here. “If a target is going 15,000 miles an hour and so are you with your interceptor, and if you miss by an inch, you miss by a mile,” Phillip Coyle, the former head of weapons testing at the Pentagon and former assistant secretary of defense, told Foxtrot Alpha. “It’s the […]
Executive Director John Tierney quoted in Mint Press News
Read the full piece here. “The budget as proposed is not going to pass ‘as is,’ since it is unrealistic and will not get enough support in Congress,” said John Tierney, who represented Massachusetts’s sixth congressional district in the House of Representatives from 1997 until 2015. He is now executive director of the Council for […]
Policy Analyst Greg Terryn on TRT World
To watch the video, click here. Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation policy analyst Greg Terryn talked to TRT World on North Korea’s recent missile launches and how the U.S. and the international community should respond to it. To watch the video, click here.
Executive Director John Tierney’s Op-Ed in The National Interest
Read the full piece in The National Interest. The Pentagon’s financial practices breed inefficiency, lack accountability, and would never be accepted in a corporate boardroom. President Trump’s focus on wasteful Pentagon programs is a positive step, but his calls for more funding without preconditions will only increase the federal debt without improving national security whatsoever. […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip E. Coyle Quoted in LA Times
Read the full piece in the LA Times. Former Assistant Defense Secretary Philip E. Coyle III, who led the Pentagon’s office of operational testing and evaluation for six years, said the January 2016 test failure was cause for serious concern about GMD’s reliability. “If the circuitry caused a failure, that’s a bad thing,” Coyle said. […]
