On Military Spending and National Defense: Interview with William Hartung
Having served as the director of the Arms Trade Resource Center at the World Policy Institute in the past, William Hartung is the current director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for...
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“When American firms dominate a global market worth more than $70 billion a year, you’d expect to hear about it. Not so with the global arms trade.” That’s the lead on a recent article by William...
View Article‘You Don’t Get the Full Picture of What a Devastating Trade This Is’
Janine Jackson interviewed William Hartung about US arms sales for the August 5, 2016, episode of CounterSpin
View ArticleCentre Provides Interns with a Chance to Take on the Nation’s Capital
Jared Thompson, an international studies major, spent his summer in the capital working as a research intern for the Security Assistance Monitor (SAM), a project of the Center for International Policy...
View ArticleHow the Pentagon became the world’s weapon system superstore
The United States is the world's largest arms merchant. It's not even close. So, who decides what gets sold, and to whom? And how closely does anyone follow the rules? This week on War College we look...
View ArticleHow Did a Nuclear Warhead End Up Lying in a Ditch in Arkansas?
The documentary Command and Control shows just how horrifyingly vulnerable we are to errors involving nuclear weapons. The question is not just whether Donald Trump or Kim Jong-un can be trusted with...
View ArticleIsrael Gives Up Little to Get Largest Ever U.S. Arms Deal
After pushing off negotiations until the Iran deal concluded, Netanyahu has “settled” for the largest military aid package to any country in the history of U.S. security assistance. The deal will...
View ArticleTrump and Security Assistance
U.S. security assistance has become one of the major foreign policy tools of the U.S. government since 9/11 to combat terrorism abroad, but this assistance is increasingly criticized for failing to...
View ArticlePentagon will finally find out if it pays to assist foreign armies
Since 9/11, the U.S. government has spent more than $250 billion to strengthen the security forces of over 130 countries. Yet there is remarkably little information about what is working, how and why
View ArticleWhy Haven’t We Defeated al-Shabaab?
“We’ve been fighting al-Shabaab for a decade, why haven’t we won?” the Trump transition team asked the State Department. To foreign policy professionals, such questions may sound naïve and uninformed....
View ArticleCommerce Department Boosts Arms Sales Deliveries to Record High
U.S. arms sales deliveries jumped to more than $25 billion in FY 2015, increasing the total value of U.S. arms deliveries by at least $5 billion over recent years, according to latest data from several...
View ArticleDebunking Myths that Fuel Irresponsible U.S. Defense Policy
As President Trump continues to authorize record-breaking U.S. arms deals to Saudi Arabia and many other countries around the world and propose major increases in Pentagon spending, he is positioning...
View ArticleFive dangers of giving the Commerce Department oversight of firearms exports
U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Buy American” agenda is taking a potentially deadly turn, with the administration expected to issue new regulations that would make it easier for U.S. firearms and...
View Article15 Years Later, CIP Commemorates Disastrous US Choices in Iraq
On the 15h Anniversary of the Iraq War, Center for International Policy experts comment on the disastrous choices the US has made in Iraq since 2003
View ArticleDonald Trump Is America’s Number-One Weapon Salesman
And he couldn’t be prouder of the job he’s doing
View ArticleSelling Arms as if There Were No Tomorrow
Few American exports are more successful globally than things that go boom in the night: Hollywood movies -- especially, of course, superhero films, which regularly garner vast international audiences...
View ArticleTrump Admin. Continues Spike in Counterterrorism Aid to Africa
U.S. Counterterrorism Aid Globally Increasingly Focused on Foreign Militaries, Border Security, and Anti-Radicalization
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