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How Big Would DoD Budget be Under Sequestration? Historically Big, It Turns Out..
January 21, 2013
In April 1953, the newly inaugurated American President Dwight Eisenhower sought the opportunity after the death of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin to reduce U.S-Soviet tensions and reduce U.S. defense spending. Washington, D.C. President Bryan, distinguished guests of this Association, and ladies and gentlemen: I am happy to be here. I say this and I mean […]
August 1, 2012
GOOD Infographic: Worldwide Arms Sales DATA VISUALIZATION, INFOGRAPHICS The world arms trade is a multi-billion dollar industry with a strong economic impact on its major exporters. This infographic in collaboration with GOOD, shows the biggest international arms suppliers and buyers, and the United States’s recent dramatic jump in market share. http://columnfivemedia.com/work-items/good-infographic-worldwide-arms-sales/
July 30, 2012
Good media platform published this infographic that portrays U.S. spending on defense and development aide in comparison to other countries. Data is from 2010 and before the recent publication of the new Defense Strategic Guidance and new budget priorities. Development assistance spending and military spending appear to promote two contradictory sets of values: one that builds and one that […]
July 16, 2012
Part II of a reblog from Small Wars Journal Disruptive Technology and Reforming the Pentagon Establishment—Part II The Origin of MRAPs in DoD by Thaddeus L. Jankowski “Dear Mr. Secretary, thank you for your letter of June 27th 2011…As I noted when you were here in June you had my back throughout that time. More […]
November 6, 2011
Excerpt from the Washington Post on 6 Nov No, not the Northern Virginia shopping malls outside Washington. Rather, the government contractors located there, which have metastasized as federal agencies have outsourced more of their work with the “reinventing government” push of the 1990s and the homeland security boom of the past decade. The federal government […]
November 3, 2011
via Danger Room By Spencer Ackerman Don’t believe the poverty story that the service chiefs brought to the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday morning, shortly after McHugh ended his breakfast meeting. The so-called “sequestration” process that the chiefs fear, whereby automatic congressional cuts decimate the Pentagon budget — in Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s memorable […]
October 31, 2011
I present to you two sides of the coin when it comes to defense spending and the national budget. I am beginning to believe sequestration is necessary to get the defense budget in order…(Lockheed 4QFY11 revenue rose 7% to $12b, Northrop $500m, General Dynamics $600m in a “down economy”) The Hill Our greatest threat isn’t China, it’s continuing to […]
October 31, 2011
Debunking three myths about the debt deal – The Hill’s Congress Blog. Defenders of wasteful Department of Defense (DoD) spending launched an all-out assault on the truth this week. They claim the debt deal has already reduced DoD spending by $450 billion, and if spending is cut any further, a million jobs will be lost […]
May 20, 2011
I think he is incorrect in giving future global influence credit to IGOs…if his argument is the economy, then it would be corporations and/or illicit corporations. IGOs will only give credibility to actions so that one nations actions are not perceived as one sovereign infringing on another sovereign. At least we have conflict to look […]
Pathfinder 
February 16, 2013
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