Archives: Arms and Security Initiative Press

Amnesty: U.S. Arms Sales To Egypt Must Stop | Press TV

December 8, 2011

AP In an interview with NPR's Melissa Block in March, William Hartung, the director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation, expressed concern over the US State Department' vetting process with respect to arms sales to ...

Urban Journal: The Federal Debt and Our 'Permanent War Budget' | Rochester City Newspaper

November 30, 2011

Hartung (a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation's American Strategy Program) isn't the only one who saw advantages in a committee deadlock. But Hartung makes a particularly important point. Failure - and the legislated threat it creates ...

Navy's Amphibious Fleet Could Fall Short of Goals, CBO Says | Government Executive

November 28, 2011

William Hartung, a defense specialist at the Center for International Policy, told Government Executive that the report seemed "to acknowledge that cutting back on the Navy's desired ability to project force globally would be manageable. ...

Budget Cuts' Cost, in U.S. Jobs | Defense News

October 30, 2011

William Hartung, an analyst at the Center for International Policy, said Pentagon planners need more than a rough estimate of total jobs that might be lost amid budget cuts. They note, for example, that some jobs are harder to fill than others; ...

America After 9/11: A Nation Fixated with its Security | Financial Times

September 6, 2011

Pretty much whatever they asked for was given, because we were at war,” says William Hartung of the New America Foundation, a Washington-based think tank. “In absolute terms, military spending is higher than it has been since world war two – it is ...

Budget Talks Have Major Defence Contractors on Edge | Inter Press Service

August 25, 2011

William Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy and author of 'Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex', said talks of defence budget cuts have private defence ...

Post-9/11, U.S. Economy Pays Steep Price | Agence France Presse

August 17, 2011

“The war in Iraq, which had nothing to do with terrorism, was a huge price to pay to get rid of one dictator,” William Hartung, a defense expert at the New America Foundation, told AFP. “And whereas in the past the US has financed wars in part with tax ...

'Those Worrying Over Libya Expenditure Should Question Afghanistan' | Press TV

April 9, 2011

“Those genuinely concerned about war costs need to go where the money is – Afghanistan,” writes William Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy. The entire Gross Domestic Product of Afghanistan is about ...

The Million-Dollar Weapon | Center for Public Integrity

March 25, 2011

William Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation and author of the book Prophets of War, said the use of the Tomahawk helps explain, in part, the high cost of the operations in Libya. “The no-fly zones in Iraq ...

Prophets of War, by William D. Hartung | Pittsburgh Business Times

March 25, 2011

William Hartung traces the history of the company and offers concrete examples of how it has become one of the most consequential corporations in the world. Written from a specific viewpoint, Prophets of War offers a thorough history of this undeniably ...

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