Carl Conetta
Carl Conetta is a founding co-director of the Project on Defense Alternatives. Formerly, he was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies and served for three years as editor of Defense and Disarmament News. He has also served as a consulting analyst for the Council on Foreign Relations, the US House Armed Services Committee, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Mr Conetta is the author or co-author of 65 reports on armed conflict, military strategy, and defense budgeting. In addition, he has contributed to 15 edited volumes and published in World Policy Journal, Security Dialogue, Defense News, National Defense, the Journal of Humanitarian Operations, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and Aviation Week, among others.
His commentary has appeared in numerous newspapers, including The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and The Christian Science Monitor. He has been a commentator on ABC-TV, Al Jazeera, BBC, CBS-TV, CNN, Fox News, the History Channel, Canadian television (CBC), Voice of America, National Public Radio, and the ABC and CBS radio networks, among others.
Mr. Conetta has made presentations before the US Commission for Fiscal Responsibility, the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, the House Armed Services Committee and House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the US DoD Cost Analysis Symposium, the National Defense University, US Army War College, Joint Forces Staff College, the Naval War College, various congressional research agencies, the White House Office of Management and the Budget, and the UN Institute for Disarmament Research.
Charles Knight
Charles Knight is co-director and a senior researcher at the Project on Defense Alternatives. In 1989, he founded the Ground Force Alternatives Project at the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies in Brookline, Massachusetts, where he served as a research fellow. In 1991, he and Carl Conetta co-founded the Project on Defense Alternatives at the Commonwealth Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
At the Project on Defense Alternatives, he has authored and co-authored numerous publications. These have appeared in publications such as Defense News, Boston Review, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Social Policy, Boston Globe, Time, Newsweek, International Security, and Dissent.
Mr. Knight has made numerous presentations on peace and security issues at governmental and non-governmental institutions, and during the 1994-1996 period had the honor to consult on confidence-building security options for southern Africa with the African National Congress and South African Ministry of Defense.
In 2017, Mr. Knight began intensive work on the potential for a counter-proliferation war in Korea led by the U.S. This included a ten-day trip to the Manchurian region of China, Vladivostok, Russia, and Seoul, South Korea, engaging security specialists and gathering regional perspectives on the real possibility of a new Korean war.
In the last decade, he has turned more of his attention to issues of gender, in particular how conventional masculine performances of domination and violence are reproduced at home, in the neighborhood, and at school – with repercussions all the way up to international relations.
Formerly, Mr. Knight was a fellow at the Institute for Peace and International Security in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and publisher of Working Papers magazine.