The Project
on Defense Alternatives has long been an advocate of restraint when
it comes to employing military means to foreign affairs and an
advocate for investing more in non-violent means of global
engagement. Five years ago we recognized that the country's
fiscal situation would force a degree of restraint on the
Pentagon and the White House. We turned much of our
attention to work around the military budget and contributed
substantially to ending the growth of military spending (at least in
the near term.)
Now with the economy slowly improving and Congressional budget
deadlock easing the budgetary restraints on the Pentagon are
beginning to ease as well. We will continue work on the budget,
but are turning more of our attention to strategic issues and the
overall military force posture which is supposed to flow from
strategy, but which, of course, is always resistant to change.
In the end it is national strategy and the means accumulated to
support the strategy that gets the U.S, into wars.
Strategy and force posture will be the central focus of PDA's Reset Defense Bulletin,
now published bi-weekly. Recent editions of the Bulletin can be
viewed here.
The most recent Bulletin
is titled Will
the U.S. make needed changes to national strategy?
Should you wish to subscribe please visit this webpage: http://www.comw.org/pda/subpageRDBulletin.html
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cluttering your inbox.
This past year we also changed our institutional affiliation.
For more than twenty years we were affiliated with the Commonwealth
Institute in Cambridge, MA. A year ago we moved PDA to a larger
Washington, DC-based organization, The
Center for International Policy. We are very pleased
with the new affiliation.
Carl Conetta who lives in the DC area is now serving as the director
of PDA's program while Charles Knight works as a non-resident Senior
Fellow from his Cambridge office.
Should you wish to contact us you can email pda (at) comw.org or call
the Center at (202) 232-3317.
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