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Salon.com
May 10, 2001
Arianna Huffington |
What is Washington trying to hide? The government outsources the war on drugs so it can point fingers at the private sector when the body bags start pouring in...   |
Salon.com
July 5, 2000
Ana Arana |
Fighting drugs with choppers and poison Even advocates of U.S. military aid think the anti-narcotics package will only unravel the peace with Colombian guerrillas. |
Salon.com
September 1, 2000
Arianna Huffington |
An eerie campaign silence Bush and Gore should tell us where they stand on the ugly $1.3 billion drug war offensive in Colombia that the next president will have to face. |
Salon.com
December 5, 2000
Ana Arana |
Ground zero in the Colombian drug war The U.S.-backed Plan Colombia will soon touch down in a region battered by civil war and central to the cocaine trade -- will it ignite the conflict? |
National Defense
April 2007
Steffes & Burnside |
Restrictions on Flight Simulators Questioned A legislative restriction on providing flight simulators to the military services has the potential to seriously impact the readiness of our aviators in the military services. |
Reason
November 2005
Matt Welch |
Rummy's Posse The main thrust of an 1878 law -- keeping the four fighting branches of the military away from American citizens -- has stood firm. Until now. |
National Defense
February 2004
Peter M. Steffes |
The Reality of 'Buy America' Provisions The 2004 National Defense Authorization Act now in House-Senate conference includes a series of legislative requirements known as the "Buy America" provisions. Few, if any, issues in recent defense legislation history have generated more reactions from a wide variety of interest groups. |
National Defense
December 2009
Stew Magnuson |
Integrating Civilian Agencies Into Military Operations Remains Difficult The United States' "whole government" approach to rebuilding war-torn nations is nevertheless moving forward. |
Salon.com
August 30, 2000
Mark Schapiro |
Panama wants to stay out of the drug war Fearful of walking in the footsteps of Thailand during the Vietnam War, officials in Panama want to stay out of the U.S. offensive in Colombia. |
Salon.com
August 28, 2000
Ana Arana |
War on drugs 1, human rights 0 On the eve of President Clinton's trip to Colombia, critics say Washington cares more about its war on drugs than human rights. |
National Defense
October 2007
Sandra I. Erwin |
Why Is Congress Launching Yet Another Roles-and-Missions Probe? Congress may have the power of the purse, but it has been largely powerless in just about every attempt to influence the course of the war in Iraq and to substantially reshape military spending priorities. |
Parameters
Autumn 2008
Steven L. Schooner |
Why Contractor Fatalities Matter Apprising the American public that the true human cost associated with military operations includes contractors and exceeds 6,000 is critical to making informed decisions for the future. |
The Motley Fool
May 24, 2007
Roy Lewis |
At Ease, Taxpayer! Heroes Earned Retirement Opportunities Act... Military Family Tax Relief Act of 2003... |
The Motley Fool
May 24, 2007
Rich Duprey |
Another Tough Payday for the Military Despite persistent pay gaps for the military, legislative fixes exacerbate short-term funding problems. |
Salon.com
June 30, 2000
Arianna Huffington |
Chopper wars Coupon-cutting cronies in the Senate care more about helicopters for Colombia than the drug problem at home. |
National Defense
December 2009
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Before War Strategy Is Settled, Political Aims Must Be Defined Amid uncertainty and unease about the future of the U.S. military in Afghanistan, the importance of clear political objectives can't be overstated. |
Salon.com
January 11, 2001
Michael Easterbrook |
What are we fighting for? Colombia's civil war puts children on the front lines... |
Salon.com
April 24, 2001
Jeff Stein |
Treachery over the Andes The downing of a U.S. missionary plane over Peru raises questions about whether we can trust our drug-war allies -- and the families of soldiers who died in Colombia say the answer is no... |
Parameters
Autumn 2008
Mark Cancian |
Contractors: The New Element of Military Force Structure The purpose of this article is to examine what battlefield contractors do, consider how we got to the situation we are in today, and provide force planners with some useful insight regarding the future. |
National Defense
November 2007
Lawrence P. Farrell |
Plenty of Resources, But Even Greater Demand The politics of military spending have reached fever pitch as Congress attempts to pass the Defense Department's fiscal year 2008 budget and weighs massive war spending requests. |
BusinessWeek
June 11, 2007 |
Hail Colombia An outpouring of reactions - from gratitude to revulsion - to a recent story about Colombian lawmakers and businessmen had just been arrested for their alleged links to paramilitaries who murdered hundreds of citizens. |
National Defense
January 2008
Alan L. Gropman |
Government Needs to Reexamine Rules for Battlefield Contractors The contractor headcount in Iraq nearly matches U.S. troop strength, which raises questions of whether the private sector's role in combat operations has outpaced regulatory, doctrinal and management practices. |
National Defense
March 2007 |
Little Known Legislation Takes Federal Contractors By Surprise If implemented, the requirement of Section 511 of Public Law 109-222 will have a significant impact on the defense industry, especially small businesses. |
National Defense
June 2011
Sandra I. Erwin |
Cries of 'Hollow Military' Stifle Rational Debate on Future Spending President Obama has called for $400 billion in Pentagon cuts over the next 12 years, and to some defense officials and lawmakers, this is just the opening salvo of a campaign to tear down the U.S. military. |
Foundation News & Commentary
Nov/Dec 2005
Jane C. Nober |
Military Aid Grantmakers can support military personnel. Here's how. |
National Defense
September 2004
David M. Walker |
Defense Transformation: A Battle the U.S. Cannot Afford to Lose A crunch is coming. Although national defense and homeland security have received generous funding in recent years, this cannot continue indefinitely. Defense budgets of the future almost certainly will be tighter. It is time to recognize that we are in a fiscal hole, and stop digging. |
Parameters
Autumn 2007
Gregory L. Cantwell |
Nation-Building: A Joint Enterprise When America's Army is at war, is the nation also at war? |
National Defense
January 2016
Sid Ashworth |
Turning Point Coming for National Security The national security landscape has seen significant change over the past five years. The number of deployed forces declined by more than 60 percent from 2011 to the start of 2016, and the Budget Control Act of 2011 ushered in a period of uncertainty. |
Salon.com
April 24, 2001
Fiona Morgan |
Deadly mistake Why did the Peruvian military shoot down a plane full of innocent people -- and why was the CIA involved? |
Parameters
Winter 2005/2006
Jeffrey Record |
Why the Strong Lose Why has the United States fared consistently well against such powerful enemies as Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan and the Soviet Union, but its record against lesser foes is decidedly mixed? |
Wired
February 2003
Dan Baum |
This Gun For Hire They're the State Department's private army, the Pentagon's smallpox task force, the IT squad for everyone from the FBI to the SEC. Welcome to the future of national security -- brought to you by Computer Sciences Corporation, a division of Homeland Security Inc. |
Reason
June 2005
Toby Muse |
Legalize Now! War-weary Colombia--and its Conservative Party--consider ending the drug war. |
National Defense
December 2010
Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr. |
Military Spending: How Much Defense Will the American People Support? The American public must become better educated about the budget process and national security. Citizens should be aware that the current trends of government spending can be ruinous and unsustainable. |
Salon.com
July 5, 2000
Jeff Stein |
The unquiet death of Jennifer Odom The Pentagon says the Army pilot's crash in Colombia last July was a "mishap," but her family believes she was shot down -- the first of many soldiers likely to die in our undeclared war. |
National Defense
March 2011
Denis Chamberland |
Contractors on the Battlefield: Outsourcing of Military Services The last decade has witnessed a sharp increase in the scale of outsourcing of military services to third parties, emphasizing the importance of integrating contractor support into military operations and generating efficiencies. |
National Defense
February 2009
Sandra I. Erwin |
Foreign Policy Ambition Overlooks War Lessons The Obama administration has endorsed a major expansion of ground forces, and a surge in military capabilities to conduct "irregular" warfare against non-state actors. |
National Defense
July 2015
Jon Harper |
Military Retirement Reform Moves Forward In recent weeks, the congressional armed services committees voted to make major alterations to the U.S. military's retirement system, as the Pentagon seeks to control personnel costs that threaten to crowd out future spending on modernization and readiness. |
Reason
July 2004
Jesse Walker |
Corporate Soldiers Employees of private security companies in Iraq had been losing their lives, particularly after the spring insurgency began, and the firms found they couldn't rely on the armed forces for protection. So businesses are contracting with each other for military and intelligence support. |
Parameters
Autumn 2006
Michael R. Melillo |
Outfitting a Big-War Military with Small-War Capabilities Unfortunately, it took the tragedy of 9/11 and the challenges posed by an adaptive enemy for the U.S. to realize it was not prepared to fight war on terms other than its own choosing. |
National Defense
December 2007
Sandra I. Erwin |
For Contractors in War Zones, Business Will Keep Growing The constant sniping in Washington about military contractors ignores the inescapable conclusion that the privatization of government functions not only is here to stay, but is going to get bigger. |
Financial Advisor
February 2010
Gail Liberman |
Military Security Holly Petraeus fights a war on American soil against financial rip-offs and naivete plaguing U.S. Service members. |
