PROJECTS of the Commonwealth Institute
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Project on Defense Alternatives (PDA), Charles Knight and Carl Conetta, co-directors.
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Progressive Strategy Studies Project (PSSP), Charles Knight, director, Wolfgang Brauner, researcher and manager.
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Massachusetts Climate Action Network (MCAN), Rob Garrity, executive director.
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Project on Inequality and Poverty (PIP), S. M. Miller, director.
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Pulse of Capitalism (archived Internet publication 1998-2005)
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The Shorter Work Time Group
Commonwealth Institute Sitemap
PDA Special Topics Web Pages
Articles and analyses on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Compendium on the US "Revolution in Military Affairs"
Studies, commentaries, and documents on US defense strategy, planning, and debates.
Studies and articles on China’s military policy, capabilities, and potential.
Compendium of documents, studies, articles and commentaries.
The effect of the new wars on the US military.
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Featured Publications
Vicious Circle: The Dynamics of Occupation and Resistance in Iraq,
Part One. Patterns of Popular Discontent
By Carl Conetta. PDA Research Monograph #10, 18 May 2005.
Arms Control in an Age of Strategic and Military Revolution
By Carl Conetta. PDA Research Monograph #11, 15 November 2005.
QDR 2006: Do The Forces Match the Missions? DOD Gives Little Reason to Believe
By Carl Conetta. PDA Briefing Memo #36, 10 February 2006.
We Can See Clearly Now: The Limits of Foresight in the pre-World War II Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA)
By Carl Conetta. PDA Research Monograph #12, 02 March 2006.
Unified Security Budget for the United States, 2007
By Lawrence Korb and Miriam Pemberton, principal authors. Foreign Policy in Focus and the Center for Defense Information, 03 May 2006,
Are We Safer? Five Years After the September 11th Attacks: Assessing the U.S. Security Situation and Alternatives for Moving Forward
Security Policy Working Group, September 2006.
Pyrrhus on the Potomac:
How America's Post-9/11 Wars have Undermined US National Security
By Carl Conetta. PDA Briefing Report #18, 05 September 2006.
Fighting on Borrowed Time: The Effect on US Military Readiness of America's post-9/11 Wars
By Carl Conetta. PDA Briefing Report #19, 11 September 2006.
Losing Hearts and Minds:
World Public Opinion and post-9/11 US Security Policy
By Carl Conetta. PDA Briefing Memo #37, 14 September 2006.
War & Consequences: Global Terrorism has Increased Since 9/11 Attacks
By Carl Conetta. PDA Briefing Memo #38, 25 September 2006.
More Troops for Iraq? Time to Just Say "No"
By Carl Conetta. PDA Briefing Memo #39, 09 January 2007.
Resolving Iraq: Progress Depends on a Short Timeline for US Troop Withdrawal
By Carl Conetta. PDA Briefing Memo #40, 18 January 2007.
No Good Reason to Boost Army, Marine Corps End Strength
By Carl Conetta. PDA Briefing Report #20, 31 January 2007.
America Speaks Out: Is the United States Spending Too Much on Defense?
By Carl Conetta. PDA Briefing Memo #41, 26 March 2007.
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