Ivan Eland: With yawning American budget deficits and a $15 trillion national debt, it would save significant amounts of money to reduce the number of carriers and carrier air wings well below the excessive 11 and 10, respectively.
Is Mitt Romney Ready for the World?
October 13, 2011 By
Lawrence Wittner: Mitt Romney seems likely to become the Republican candidate and the next president, so we should carefully examine his first major foreign and military policy address
How to Save $250 Billion: Axe “Missile Defense”
August 9, 2011 By
Lawrence Wittner: By scrapping plans for nuclear weapons “modernization” and for national missile defense—programs that are both useless and provocative—the United States would save $271 billion (well over a quarter of a trillion dollars) in the next ten years.
What the Debt Ceiling Deal Means for Foreign Policy
August 6, 2011 By
Rebecca Griffin: Depending on whom you ask, the Pentagon either got a free ride or the deal decimates the military budget. Given the leverage that Republicans had in this debate, it’s not surprising that the Pentagon got off easy in the first round of cuts.
Geneva Conventions Redefined: The New U.S. Department of War
June 9, 2011 By
Gary Corseri and Eric Shine: Today, the most disturbing sign of this take-over of all of the civilian commons by the military, at least in the U.S., comes in the form of a new, or reinvigorated, Department of War.
Confessions of a Minion of the Military-Industrial Complex
April 4, 2011 By
Jonathan David Farley: How I learned to stop worrying about where my academic research funding came from and love Raytheon
Pentagon Torture of Manning Recalls Soviets Under Stalin
March 16, 2011 By
On Wisconsin: End the War, Invest at Home
February 21, 2011 By
Tom Hayden: It is time for our most prominent liberal economists to broaden their analysis of the domestic crisis to include spending for these unfunded wars. Only Joseph Stiglitz has done so.
Hiding Military Sexual Trauma
February 19, 2011 By
John Lasker: The mysterious deaths of female soldiers coincide with an increase in reported sexual violence against women in the military.
When “Good” Dictators Go Bad
February 18, 2011 By
Norman Solomon: And so, the secretary of state condemns awful Iran, invoking “our sense of human dignity, the rights that flow from it and the principles that ground it.” But don’t hold your breath for any such condemnation of, say, Saudi Arabia — surely an “awful” government that “routinely violates the rights of its people.”
Cut the Real Wasteful Government Spending
February 17, 2011 By
Mark Dempsey: The U.S. currently spends more than the rest of the world combined on its military but less than 2% of its budget on humanitarian aid, even if clean water would do more to promote peace.
Russian Arms Control Proposals Worth Considering
January 25, 2011 By
Ivan Eland: Missile defense is an expensive relic of the Cold War, which the U.S. can no longer afford given its huge budget deficits and high debt levels. Keeping the program alive are Republicans who want to preserve this white elephant to realize the grandiose “Star Wars” dream of their hero, Ronald Reagan.
Beware the Military-Industrial Complex
January 19, 2011 By
David Greenberg: Eisenhower’s speech itself has come to be romanticized all out of proportion to its merit, and the reasonableness of straightforward critiques of Pentagon spending cannot account for the mad embrace of Eisenhower in recent decades by anti-war leftists and so-called realists.
General Shinseki Has a Dream
January 19, 2011 By
Brent Bukowsky: Let’s begin a JFK moon-shot program to end homelessness among American veterans within five years, and end homelessness of any American within 10 years.
Why Pentagon Claims MLK Would Love War on Afghanistan
January 19, 2011 By
David Swanson: A poll last spring found that 85% of Kandaharis consider the Taliban “our Afghan brothers.” The poll was commissioned by the Pentagon. The same poll found that 94% favored peace negotiations, not war. So, out of the goodness of our racist hearts, we brought them more war.
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