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William Hartung's 'Prophets of War' makes the Project on Government Oversight's list of 10 Books that Matter...
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A blog analyzing the disparity between our national values and our continued national security policies...
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A report proposing policy recommendations to improve American security and reduce annual costs by at least $60 billion per year...
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A special report by Selig Harrison detailing recommendations for both the Pakistani government's stance towards minorities and U.S. policy toward the region...
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Winding down the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and promoting affordable security.
The Center for International Policy’s Common Defense Campaign has three specific goals: 1) to wind down the war in Afghanistan; 2) complete the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq; and 3) make real, lasting cuts in the military budget. An equally important but harder to quantify goal is to change the way America relates to the rest of the world. Gone are the days when America could go it alone.
America spends well over one trillion dollars a year on the military when spending by other government departments is included, including the Energy Department’s budget for nuclear weapons and $81 billion for intelligence agencies. Given that America’s annual deficit is about one-and-a-half trillion dollars, one could argue that military spending is all borrowed money.
The growing consensus that military spending must be brought under control presents an historic opportunity to both cut spending and also to reevaluate how and when America uses its military forces. We see an opportunity for an alliance with conservatives who share our skepticism about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and believe that the Pentagon budget is rife with waste and unnecessary spending that has nothing to do with national defense.
The Common Defense Campaign coordinates the work of CIP’s five security projects: the Afghanistan Study Group, the Win Without War coalition, the Asia Project, the Arms & Security Project and the National Security Project.
By William D. Hartung
Jan-17-2012 | Policy Brief, Fact Sheet
Plans for cutting the federal deficit have raised an important question: what impact would military spending reductions have on jobs? This fact sheet is an update with new numbers from 2011 for U.S. employment effects of military and domestic spending. ... Read More »
By William D. Hartung
Oct-31-2011 | Policy Brief
In this policy brief, William D. Hartung explores the mutually beneficial and close ties between the arms lobby and super committee members. ... Read More »
By Selig S. Harrison
Apr-06-2009 | Report
In a special report, Selig Harrison discusses recommendations for both the Pakistani government's stance on minorities and U.S. foreign policy toward the region. ... Read More »
By William D. Hartung
Feb-10-2012 | Article
On Feb. 13 the Obama administration will release the full details of its Fiscal Year 2013 budget proposal. Advocates of higher military spending are already spreading cries of alarm... Read More »
By Matthew Hoh, John Isaacs
Feb-08-2012 | Article
Two lengthy and devastating wars separated by three decades. One fought in the jungles of Vietnam and one in the mountains and deserts of Afghanistan... Read More »
By Matthew Hoh
Feb-06-2012 | Article
In late December, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta assured Representative Frank Wolf (R-VA) that the United States was "making undeniable progress" in its war in Afghanistan and that a congressionally mandated, independent assessment of the war was "not necessary." However, recent media reports of internal Department of Defense and Intelligence Community assessments of the war contradict, again, claims of progress... Read More »
Feb-24-12 | Temple University, 821 Anderson Hall, 12th and Berks Street, Philadelphia, PA
Join Melvin Goodman in Philadelphia to discuss the costs and consequences of U.S. militarism... Read More »
Oct-14-11 | CIP, 1717 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Suite 801, Washington, DC 20036
Come hear Jonathan Steele discuss his eyewitness account of the past 30 years of Afghan history, as well as discuss the policy moves Obama should be making. ... Read More »
May-12-11 | University of California Washington Center
Felix Kuehn travelled to Afghanistan first some 5 years ago, having spent several years in the Middle East including just short of a year in Yemen, where he first learnt Arabic in 2002.... Read More »
By William D. Hartung
Jan-17-2012 | Policy Brief, Fact Sheet
Plans for cutting the federal deficit have raised an important question: what impact would military spending reductions have on jobs? This fact sheet is an update with new numbers from 2011 for U.S. employment effects of military and domestic spending. ... Read More »
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War. Wars. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The drumbeat for war in Iran...Read More »
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Lockheed Martin’s F-35 program is slated for national and international cuts that would slow production of the aircraft and could impact the work done at the company’s Marietta plant...Read More »
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William D. Hartung, of the Center for International Policy, characterizes the 2013 budget as a "minor course correction, not a strategic shift....Read More »
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