Korb Report
Read Lawrence J. Korb's latest analysis of the Pentagon budget, revealing that America can cut $60 billion in waste from the Defense budget-without affecting our ability to fight terrorists. Korb was President Ronald Reagan's Assistant Secretary of Defense.
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No One is Accountable
Read This report by Kwai Chan, the former Assistant Inspector General with the Environmental Protection Agency and the former Issue Area Director in the National Security and International Affairs Division in Government Accountability Office (GAO), documents that the Department of Defense’s financial accounting systems remain so deeply flawed that there’s little reason to expect improvement—much less a solution—to the Department’s financial mess in the foreseeable future.
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Kids Report
The Priorities Campaign's 22-page booklet, titled "Sensible Budget Priorities for America's Children," shows how America can enhance its economic security by judiciously transferring wasteful Pentagon spending to our kids who need assistance. (Published 2001)
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Trends in National Spending Priorities, 1973-2006 By National Opinion Research Center,University of Chicago, January 10, 2007
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How much do we have to pay to stop a weapons system By Jack Shanahan, published in Topeka Capital-Journal, March 29, 2004
Report of the Task Force on a Unified Security Budget for the United States, Marcus Corbin, Center for Defense Information, and Miriam Pemberton, Foreign Policy in Focus, co-chairs, March 2004. (PDF 129KB)
Rogue States:  Nuclear Red-Herrings By Bruce G. Blair, Ph.D., President of the Center for Defense Information - in The Defense Monitor, January/February 2004  (PDF 247KB)
Toward a More Secure America - Grounding U.S. Policy in Global Realities, published November 2003 by the Fourth Freedom Forum  (PDF 276KB)
Trim Pentagon Spending  (PDF 74KB)

Can another weapons system be stopped? By Jack Shanahan The San Diego Union-Tribune, February 27, 2004

Osprey or Albatross?  Dangerous Problems Still Haunt Complex V-22 By Everest E. "Rich" Riccioni Defense News, January 26, 2004
The Wrong War at the Wrong Time: Military Might Does Not Insure Stability, By Jack Shanahan
Pentagon Needs Fly Swatters, Not Aircraft Carriers, By Jack Shanahan
Testimony of Franklin C. Spinney to the Subcommittee on National Security, June 4, 2002.
Analysis of spending trends, weapon system cost overruns, and lax financial controls at the Department of Defense.

Korb Testimony
Testifying before Congress in February, 2002, Lawrence J. Korb provides updated information about how America can fight the war on terrorism and trim the Pentagon budget.
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