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 Debt, Deficits, and Defense: A Way Forward. Report of the Sustainable Defense Task Force. 11 June 2010. The Task Force illustrates how the Pentagon can contribute signifcantly to deficit reduction while advancing national security goals. The report presents options for reducing DoD’s budget -- in sum saving nearly $1 trillion over the next decade. (Executive Summary).

 An Undisciplined Defense:  Understanding the $2 Trillion Surge in US Defense Spending (full text .pdf with charts and appendices) (executive summary), by Carl Conetta, PDA Briefing Report #20, 18 January 2010. Analyzes the unprecedented post-1998 rise in defense spending and the return to Cold War budget levels. The causes include overly ambitious US military strategy and goals; weakness of reform and transformation efforts; failure to make hard choices in acquisition; and conduct of wars ill-suited to the US military. Also examined: the surge in military construction and the expanded role of private contractors.

• Trillions to Burn: A Quick Guide to the Surge in Pentagon Spending. Short, graphic summary of the report with nine charts.

 The President's Dilemma:  Debt, Deficits, and Defense Spending, by Carl Conetta, PDA Briefing Memo #45, 18 January 2010. The nation faces Reagan-level deficit spending and greatly increased debt. Can the president's program of high defense spending and increased non-defense spending survive? What about other urgent national priorities?

  Military Intervention and Common Sense: Focus on Land Forces (Paperback and Kindle editions) (Mobipocket edition) by Lutz Unterseher with contributions by C. Knight and C. Conetta, June 2009. Detailed assessment of ground force options for today's most challenging type of military intervention: those required for the stabilization of countries seriously affected by civil war or insurgency.

• Helicopters in America?s post-9/11 wars by Carl Conetta, from Lutz Unterseher, et. al., Military Intervention and Common Sense: Focus on Land Forces, Chapter 6 (Berlin: Ryckschau, June 2009)