Resource Compilations

US Policy on Syria: War or Diplomacy?

➪ HTML by Carl Conetta, editor, Project on Defense Alternatives Resource Compilation. Updated: 23 September 2013.    A Selection of Critical Views & Proposals:   ● War or diplomacy?   ● Intelligence   ● International Law   ● International & Domestic Support   ● Congressional War Authorization   ● A broader purpose, a wider war?  ● Military Factors  ● Collateral Effects of War  ● Cost Factors & Budget   ● Alternatives to war  ● General Background

Defense Budget Resources 2012

➪ HTML  Project on Defense Alternatives Resource Compilation, 14 August 2012. A one-page compilation of PDA charts, articles, and reports on every aspect of the Pentagon spending controversy. Why do we spend so much? Is it necessary? What does it mean for debt, deficits, and the economy? How might we “reset defense” to ensure security, solvency, and economic revitalization?

Inspecting Iraq: A Record of the First 40 Days

(HTML version) compiled by the Project on Defense Alternatives, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 04 January 2003. With war and peace hanging in the balance, what evidence of prohibited weapons have UN inspectors found in Iraq? This compendium of press reports provides a thorough review of the UNMOVIC inspections through 4 January 2003.

Wider War on Terrorism — its construction in the first year

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I write this in 2025.  The War on Terrorism is back, big time.  Now the White House targets the American people.  About half the citizens of the US are terrorists in the eyes of Trump administration officials.  Excellent moment to read up on what happened when President G.W. Bush invented the Global War on Terrorism.
In the fall of 2001, I began this Internet log (a blog, before I had heard of that form of Internet journalism) linking readers to key articles, documents, and commentary that chronicled the unfolding of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), as announced by President G. W. Bush. 
By early 2002, it was clear to me that the Bush administration was planning to expand the war from its initial invasion of Afghanistan to an invasion of Iraq.  The blog has the following sections: [Antecedents], [September 2001], [October 2001], [November 2001], [December 2001], [January 2002], [February/March 2002], [April/May 2002], [June/July 2002], and [August/September/October 2002]. 
By the end of October 2002,  it was clear that Washington would invade Iraq the following spring.  I stopped editing the blog at that point and turned my attention to preparing for the impending cataclysmic events. 
From the perspective of the past twenty-three years, I can say with absolutely no doubt that the many critics of the GWOT writing in that first year were far wiser than the leadership of both major political parties in Washington.    ~ Charles Knight