“The completion of the Strategic Choices Management Review by the Pentagon is a positive sign that the Department is taking seriously the reality of sequestration,” said Laicie Heeley, Director of Defense Policy at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. “The Secretary and Vice Chairman have spelled out future options showing that smart and strategic reductions in Pentagon spending can, in fact, enhance national security.”
GITMO, Missile Defense, Nuclear Reductions & Message Amendments: Understanding the Implications of the NDAA
Isaacs stated, “The House and Senate Armed Services Committee pride themselves on passing a bill, which they have done for 51 straight years – they don’t want to be the committee that wrote the bill which was vetoed.”
OUT OF THE FRYING PAN AND INTO THE FIRE
The NDAA Moves from Committee to the House Floor Military, Science and Political Experts Comment on Anticipated House’s NDAA Action Washington DC June 6, 2013–Press Advisory The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation will host a press call with Lt. General Robert Gard, Hon. Philip Coyle and John Isaacs analyzing the military, technical, budgetary and […]
President’s Defense Budget is a Starting Point, Not the End
“Despite a bipartisan coalition in Congress to reshape Pentagon spending, the political will to make difficult decisions about specific Defense Department programs is low,” said Heeley.
Secretary Hagel Takes on Pentagon’s Top Challenge: Reshaping Itself
“For too long Cold War ideology, special interests and a ‘this-is-the-way-we-do-things’ mentality has controlled the strategy and checkbook of the Pentagon,” said Laicie Heeley, senior policy analyst at The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. “U.S. national security needs to be based on a sound strategy that meets 21st century security threats, including the threat posed by our ballooning debt.”
