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| November 20, 2009 |
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More on the Joint Strike Fighter (Opinion)
The Defense Department's $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter program continues to unravel, but - sadly - the Gates/Obama Pentagon seems inclined to give it the business-as-usual approach. Straus Military Reform Project Director Winslow Wheeler explains in a new commentary at The Huffington Post.
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| November 12, 2009 |
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The Pentagon's Self-Dismembering F-35 (Opinion)
New reports show that cost overruns for the F-35 are not only "as bad" as last year's estimates, but perceptibly worse, indicating that no progress has been made to address the problems identified by the Joint Estimating Team (JET) in 2008, explains CDI's Straus Military Reform Project Director Winslow Wheeler in an updated commentary for Military.com.
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| November 12, 2009 |
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Follow the Money (Opinion)
Despite hundreds of reports over three decades from both the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the DOD's own Inspector General (DOD IG), The Department of Defense remains unauditable. In a recent investigation, DOD IG reported 13 "material weaknesses" in the Pentagon's financial management that still go unaddressed, reflecting the lack of accountability and progress in the DOD's financial performance, explains Straus Military Reform Project Director Winslow Wheeler in a new commentary on The Huffington Post Web site.
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| October 29, 2009 |
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Combat Aviation's Gloomy Future (Opinion)
The defense authorization bill signed into law yesterday by President Obama pretends a bright future for the Pentagon's Joint Strike Fighter. The program is fully funded, and Congress even added authority for the alternate GE engine, advice sure to be taken when the definitive DOD appropriations bill is finally enacted later this year. Meanwhile, in the real world, the F-35 program continues to fall apart. The latest - but hardly last - shoe to drop is a new internal analysis (breathlessly refuted by Lockheed Martin) that the cost-growth stage for this airplane is just beginning, explains Straus Military Reform Project Director Winslow Wheeler with SMRP Advisor Pierre Sprey in a new commentary on The Huffington Post Web site.
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| October 9, 2009 |
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Support Our Troops: The Senate Porkers' Approach (Opinion)
Despite another voracious year of excess for the porkers in Congress, the end of an era for pork has a chance of emerging, explains Winslow Wheeler in The Huffington Post.
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| September 30, 2009 |
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Obama's New Approach to Missile Defense in Europe (Analysis)
The Obama administration's recently announced "Phased, Adaptive Approach" to missile defense in Europe will strengthen ties with European allies and will provide for better security, explains CDI Research Assistant Jenny Shin.
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| June 5, 2009 |
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Pentagon Officials Point Out Flaws in Missile Defense Programs (Analysis)
Recent statements by Pentagon officials point out flaws in the technical and operational concepts of missile defense programs that have been cut in the Fiscal Year 2010 missile defense budget request. Their statements should provide a realistic look at the current and future state of the ballistic missile defense system, explains CDI Research Assistant Jenny Shin.
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| December 5, 2008 |
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New Policy Briefing Book Released for Presidential Transition Teams (Briefing)
The "2009 National Security and Nonproliferation Briefing Book" was prepared by the Peace and Security Initiative and released in November 2008. Included in the briefing book are the pieces "Taking Nuclear Forces Off Day-to-Day Alert," by WSI President Bruce Blair and CDI Senior Analyst Victoria Samson, and "Missile Defense," by CDI Senior Adviser Philip Coyle.
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| November 4, 2008 |
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The Other Meltdown: Little to Show for Huge Defense Budgets (Opinion)
The financial and economic collapse, our deeply flawed healthcare system, the gridlock in Washington, two long wars not going well, and long-term, fundamental problems with energy and Social Security do not complete the list of raging crises the new president must face. Add the ever expanding cost of America's shrinking, aging, less ready military forces, now approaching the meltdown stage. The nature of the problems our defenses face and the basic nature of some possible real solutions are outlined in a commentary Winslow Wheeler wrote for the Nov. 3, 2008 issue of Defense News.
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| October 29, 2008 |
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Space Security Update #7: Oct. 10, 2008 (Briefing)
No Separate Command For AFCYBER • It’s Official: Galileo Can Have Military Users • U.S. Seeking Out Cyber Warriors • Fourth SBIRS Satellite to be Bought • Israel Hoping for Commercial Funding for Its Milsat Programs • TSAT Delayed, Again • SpaceX’s Falcon I Goes Into Orbit • Chinese Astronauts Successfully Perform Spacewalk • Cuba and Venezuela May Join GLONASS • U.S. in Need of Official Space Strategy • India’s Space Program Blasting Off • DoD Decides to Acquire Two Commercial-Class Spy Satellites • Future of the New Cyber Command Uncertain • Leery of the Millennials?
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| September 18, 2008 |
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It's Not Just the Bases - or the Nukes
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A series of commentaries is being sponsored on the Mother Jones website about the sprawl of American military bases around the world and the implications. Straus Military Reform Project Director Winslow Wheeler contributed to this series with a piece entitled "It's Not Just the Bases - or the Nukes."
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| September 16, 2008 |
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Ask McCain and Obama about Missile Defense (Opinion)
Since President Reagan’s famous “Star Wars” speech in 1983, the U.S. has spent at least $120 billion, $110 billion just since 2003, on missile defense, making it the most expensive defense procurement program in history. Philip Coyle, Senior Advisor for Center for Defense Information, analyzes the future of the U.S. missile defense program, particularly in light of the 2008 presidential elections.
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| August 29, 2008 |
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Countdown to Air Force Cyber Command Stopped (Analysis)
Air Force Cyber Command (AFCYBER) was intended to become operational Oct. 1, 2008, but the launch of this controversial command has been halted. The Air Force's new leadership has wisely decided to evaluate the command's mission, capabilities and size to be sure that if continued, it will be a reasonable and legitimate command. Although all efforts related to AFCYBER have been suspended, many Air Force officials are confident the command will continue. The Air Force's new Chief of Staff along with the Joint Chiefs of Staff should have a decision on AFCYBER this month. CDI Research Assistant Chelsea Dilley analyzes this recent halt in Air Force Cyber Command development.
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| July 16, 2008 |
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2002 DOD Missile Defense Memorandum (Reports)
The Department of Defense memorandum outlining the missile defense program direction and that of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) can be found at the Federation of American Scientists website.
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