Center for Defense Information
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The Center for Defense Information was founded in 1972 by retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Gene La Rocque. The CDI is dedicated to:
- strengthening national and international security through international cooperation;
- reducing reliance on unilateral military power to resolve conflict;
- reducing reliance on nuclear weapons;
- transforming and reforming the U.S. military establishment; and
- prudent oversight of defense programs.
Currently operating under the aegis of the World Security Institute, it is composed of academics and high-ranking retired U.S. military officers who conduct critical analyses of U.S. defense and security policy.
The CDI regularly publishes the "Defense Monitor". The group also maintains a website that includes information about terrorist activity.
After the 2008 U.S. elections, the CDI released "America’s Defense Meltdown: Pentagon Reform for President Obama and the New Congress", a collection of briefing papers by a dozen defense intellectuals and retired military officers.[1]
Winslow T. Wheeler, director of the Straus Military Reform Project at CDI, expects costs for the F-35 Lightning II to significantly increase, in one example of the positions he has taken on military weapons systems.[2] The reform project is funded by Philip A. Straus Jr., a photographer,[3] and family.[4] Wheeler, a former U.S. Senate and Government Accounting Office staffer,[5] is a periodic contributor to CounterPunch's on-line site,[6] among other publications.
[edit] References
- ^ Wheeler, Winslow T. (February 18, 2009). America's Defense Meltdown: Pentagon Reform for President Obama and the New Congress (Kindle ed.). Stanford University Press.
- ^ The F-35 Boondoggle, electric politics, May 21, 2010. Intro and link to one-hour talk on subject by Wheeler.
- ^ Board of Directors, World Security Institute webpage. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
- ^ "Straus Military Reform Project", CDI webpage. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
- ^ Winslow Wheeler, bio, CDI webpage. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
- ^ Winslow T. Wheeler articles, Google search of CounterPunch site. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
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