Are We Safer?
Five Years After the September 11th Attacks:
Assessing the U.S. Security Situation and Alternatives for Moving Forward
An Anthology of National Security Essays - September 2006
Security Policy Working Group
Members of the Security Policy Working Group have published a series of nine essays that attempt to get at some of the issues and questions that can help answer this fundamental question:
- Do Our Forces Match the Strategy?
- Terrorism: Our Primary Threat?
- $600 Billion Security Toolbox: What Are We Buying?
- Permanent War: A Given?
- Homeland Security: Are We Prepared?
- Use of Force: When Is It Necessary?
- Diplomacy and Prevention: Instruments of Power?
- US Role in the World?
Click on the links below to view individual essays:
Pyrrhus on the Potomac: How America's Post-9/11 Wars Have Undermined US National Security
Carl Conetta, Project on Defense Alternatives.
Terrorism or All-Hazards? Broadening Homeland Security
Anita Dancs, National Priorities Project.
America's Post 9/11 Military: Can Congress Reform Our Shrinking, Aging, Less Ready, More Expensive Forces?
Winslow T. Wheeler, Center for Defense Information.
Funding for Defense, Military Operations, Homeland Security, and Related Activities Since 9/11
Steven Kosiak, Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments.
National Security Budgets to Make America Safer
Cindy Williams, MIT Security Studies Program.
Fighting the "Good Fight": An Alternative to Current Democratic Proposals For a New National Security Strategy
William D. Hartung, World Policy Institute, Arms Trade Resource Center.
Is the War on Terror "Worth it"?
David Gold, New School University.
Special Threat: U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy under the Bush Doctrine
Michael D. Intriligator, Economists for Peace & Security.
Terrorism in the Context of Other Threats: Assessing Risks and Solutions
David Colt, Economists for Peace & Security
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