(HTML version) by David Alexander, Reuters, 09 April 2013. “It’s a very irresponsible thing,” said Charles Knight, a senior fellow at the liberal think tank Project on Defense Alternatives. “Both Congress and the White House are in denial about the law of the land, which is the Budget Control Act. It’s now in effect and they’re acting as though it doesn’t exist.”
In the News
RSS feed for this sectionA Growing Consensus for Shrinking the Defense Budget?
(HTML version) by Charles S. Clark, Government Executive, 26 March 2013. “…visions for the new era in American defense strategy ranged from further troop reductions to narrower overseas missions to abolishing the Marine Corps.”
Top Pentagon thinker bemoans “civilian subjugation to the military.”
(HTML version) by Bryan Bender, Boston Globe, 26 March 2013. “…a national security establishment, in [Gregory] Foster’s view, that perpetuates an approach to the world that is overly confrontational, lacks critical thinking about long term objectives, and even undercuts the strategic aims of democracy.”
Funding the military of the future
(HTML version) by Amber Corrin, FCW, 26 March 2013. “Conetta said that reasonable alternatives to today’s military could be based on a different approach – one that helps sustain the economy and receives no more than 2.2 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product; emphasizes defense over global environment-shaping; and focuses on multi-lateral cooperation.”
PDA Joins Center for International Policy
30 January 2013. The Project on Defense Alternatives has joined the Center for International Policy (press release) as part of the latter’s Common Defense Campaign. The Center’s staff supports an energetic program addressing both traditional and new security concerns. CIP’s Common Defense Campaign aims for a reset of defense policy along more realistic, cooperative, and affordable lines.
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