Time to Reset Defense
Guidance for a More Effective and Affordable US Defense Posture

 

For Your Reference



Gordon Adams, Stimson Center and American University

       ■    Budget Agreement Reached! 5 think tanks warn of things to come for the Pentagon. Foreign Policy, 27 November 2012. (requires free registration)

       ■    Strategic and Fiscal Discipline: The Defense Budget and America’s Fiscal Crisis. Testimony before the US House Committee on the Budget, 7 July 2011.

       ■    A Leaner and Meaner Defense. Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb 2011.

 

Amy Belasco, Congressional Research Service

       ■    Potential Effects on Defense Spending of a Year-long Continuing Resolution and the March 2013 Sequesters. CRS Memorandum. Washington DC: Congressional Research Service, 7 February 2013.

       ■    The Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Global War on Terror Operations Since 9/11. CRS Report to Congress. Washington DC: Congressional Research Service, 29 March 2011.

 
 Carl Conetta, Project on Defense Alternatives, Center for International Policy

       ■    “Reasonable Defense: A Sustainable Approach to Securing the Nation” (summary) (full text) (appendix of tables and charts). PDA Briefing Report #21. Cambridge MA: Commonwealth Institute, 14 November 2012.

       ■    Going for Broke: The Budgetary Consequences of Current US Defense Strategy, PDA Briefing Memo #52. Cambridge MA: Commonwealth Institute, 25 October 2011.

       ■    The Pentagon's New Mission Set: A Sustainable Choice? Expanded excerpt from the Report of the Task Force on a Unified Security Budget for the United States, FY 2012. Washington DC: IPS Foreign Policy in Focus, July 2011.

 

Sandra Erwin, National Defense magazine

       ■    Pentagon Needs a New, More Credible Defense Strategy, Panel Recommends. National Defense, 22 February 2013.

       ■    Budget Uncertainty Trumps Quadrennial Defense Review. National Defense, 1 January 2013.

       ■    More Than One Way to Skin the Defense Budget. National Defense, 18 Nov 2012.

 

Benjamin Friedman, Cato Institute

       ■    A sequestration solution for the Pentagon. Reuters, 28 Feb 2013.

       ■    Why the US Military Budget is `Foolish and Sustainable’. Orbis, Spring 2012.

       ■    Budgetary Savings from Military Restraint. Policy Analysis #667. Washington DC: Cato Institute, September 2010.

 

Gregory Foster, National Defense University

       ■    Trumpeting the Superpower Status Quo In These Times, 13 March 2012.

       ■    Transforming US National Security: A Call for Strategic Idealism. Defense & Security Analysis, June 2010.

       ■    The Obama National Security Team: Old Wine in Old Bottles. Humanist, March/April 2009.

 

Melvin Goodman, National Security Project, Center for International Policy

       ■    9 Ways To Reduce Defense Spending. Huffington Post, 5 March 2013.

       ■    Ike's Warning Resonates. Baltimore Sun, 17 January 2011.

       ■    The Uses and Misuses of Intelligence in Four US Wars. Truth Out, 15 October 2010.

 

Col. Douglas A. Macgregor (USA, retired), Burke-Macgregor Group

       ■    Building a Smarter, Smaller Military. Time, 6 December 2012.

       ■    Lean, Mean Fighting Machine. Foreign Policy, 26 April 2011.

       ■    Thoughts on Force Design in an Era of Shrinking Defense Budgets. Joint Forces Quarterly, 63:4, 2011.

 

Contact

Carl Conetta, Project on Defense Alternatives - cconetta@comw.org

Ethan Rosenkranz, Project on Defense Alternatives - erosenkranz@comw.org