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Defense Spending
Military Strategy? Who Needs It? The Madness of Funding the Pentagon to “Cover the Globe“
Cut the money and change the strategy.
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Defense Spending and Net Exports Spur Higher Than Expected Third Quarter Growth
Health spending continues its slower path, with an inflation rate of just 1.4 percent over the last year.
Risk Assessment Reigns in Budgeting, Except When it Comes to Climate
Climate change and defense spending are not mutually exclusive.
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The Cost of Teaching an Old Nuclear Weapon New Tricks
Seven decades after the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, the United States has long-term plans to modernize its nuclear weapons at a cost of hundreds of …
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The Tragedy Unfolding on the American Homefront
While a teenager recently fatally shot his veteran father in self-defense, the national conversation failed to register that although veterans must be held accountable.
Moral Robots for the Pentagon? Let’s Work on Pentagon Morality First
While the Navy figures out how to inject human morals into the computers of future fighting robots, it's clear the Department of Defense has major work to do instilling …
Dina Rasor | Your Must-Do Assignment for 2014: Read This Chart and Pass It On
Will you share this chart showing that the US is grossly spending more than all our perceived enemies combined?
Washington’s Pivot to Ignorance: Will the State Department Torpedo Its Last Great Program?
Often it's the little things coming out of Washington, obscured by the big, scary headlines, that matter most in the long run.
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Dollars for Endless War or Investment in a New Era?
After over a decade of war, it is time to shift national priorities and do away with the Pentagon's uncapped war expenses slush fund, the “Overseas Contingency Operations” fund.
America’s $1 Trillion National Security Budget
The Pentagon remains unaudited, which will remain the case even after it meets its overdue and embarrassingly modest financial management goals - which by the way, it will do …