National Security Architecture: Press

Report: Increasing Number Of Retired Military Officers Are Now Well-Paid Consultants | USA Today

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:31:00 -0500

"This setup invites abuse," says Janine Wedel, a George Mason University public policy professor and author of a forthcoming book ...

US Arms Sales Hit Record in 2009 | Ottawa Citizen

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:47:00 -0500

William Hartung of the New America Foundation, a Washington-based research group focused on US defense and foreign policy issues, said Obama should pay more ...

UN to Pursue Conventional Arms Trade Treaty | IPS

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:41:00 -0400

William D. Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation, told IPS the commitment by the majority of the world's ...

Obama Deserves the Nobel | Globe and Mail

Cecille Isidro — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:36:00 -0400

... of the urgency of this mission,” said William Hartung, director of the New York based Arms and Security Initiative and a leading arms-control authority. ...

Obama (and Everyone Else) "Surprised" by Nobel | Inter Press Service

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:41:00 -0400

William D. Hartung, director of the New America Foundation's Arms and Security Initiative, thinks that Obama's initiative for a "world without nuclear weapons" was a major contributory factor in the Nobel Peace Prize. ...

Use Of Private Security Grows In Iraq, Afghanistan | NPR

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:31:00 -0400

"Security is not just Blackwater," says Michael Cohen, a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation who has studied the use of contractors. ...

Barack Obama Wants Deal on Nuclear Weapons | The Telegraph (U.K.)

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:24:00 -0400

William Hartung, director of the arms and security initiative at the New America Foundation, said: "The fact that the President of the United States has ...

Arms Control | NPR

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:12:00 -0400

But William Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation, says he doesn't think any efforts at the UN this week will ... and more »

Missile Defense Winners and Losers | Politico

Cecille Isidro — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 07:31:00 -0400

Moreover, said William Hartung, director of the arms and security initiative at the New America Foundation, “If the decision ends up putting Patriot ... and more »

Gates Signals Troop Increase Likely in Afghanistan | The Washington Independent

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:06:00 -0400

A prominent critic, Michael Cohen, a defense analyst at the New America Foundation, has been blogging for months a feature called “Afghanistan Mission Creep ... and more »

Contractors Outnumber U.S. Troops In Afghanistan | NPR

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:20:00 -0400

... have the troops to do these tasks on their own," says Michael Cohen, a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation who has studied the issue. ... and more »

Obama to Bolster Nuclear Disarmament at UN | Inter Press Service

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:06:00 -0400

Frida Berrigan, senior associate of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation, says President Obama, in his historic Apr. 2009 speech ... and more »

Obama Faces Rising Anxiety on Afghanistan | The Washington Independent

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:23:00 -0400

... “More and more people are questioning the underlying assumptions of the whole thing,” observed Michael Cohen, a New York-based scholar with the New America Foundation who began running a feature on a progressive foreign-policy blog, Democracy Arsenal, called Afghanistan Mission Creep Watch. ...

A Roundtable Discussion on Disarmament | Democracy Now

Erin Drankoski — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:22:00 -0400

New America's Frida Berrigan interviewed with Democracy Now.

Afghanistan: Casualties and Objectives | KCRW - Santa Monica

Cecille Isidro — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:46:00 -0400

July is not over, but it's already the deadliest month for US troops in Afghanistan since the war began eight years ago. The US has begun a major offensive against the Taliban, but two out of three allied casualties are caused not by direct combat but improvised explosive devises, crude roadside bombs. Defense Secretary Gates says there must be "progress" before next summer or the war will lose the support of the American people. How will "progress" be measured? What are the US objectives in what's now being called "Barack Obama's War?"

Despite Splits, US Still Arms Israel | United Press International

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:20:00 -0400

According to Frida Berrigan of the New America Foundation's Arms and Security Initiative, sales in the first half of 2009 reached $27 billion and could hit ...

In Cyber War, Pentagon May Victimize Privacy | Press TV

Cecille Isidro — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:00:00 -0400

"If the Pentagon and the military services see cyberspace as a battlefield domain, then the lines protecting privacy and our civil liberties get blurred very, very quickly," peace activist Frida Berrigan - the daughter of renowned Vietnam War protester ...

Privacy May Be a Victim in Cyberdefense Plan | New York Times

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:03:00 -0400

Frida Berrigan, a longtime peace activist who is a senior program associate at the New America Foundation’s arms and security initiative, expressed concerns about whether the Obama administration would be able to balance its promise to respect privacy in cyberspace even as it appeared to be militarizing cybersecurity.

Cyberscares About Cyberwars Equal Cybermoney | Middle East Online

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:06:00 -0400

Pentagon sees cyberspace as another battlefield terrain no different from the mountains of Afghanistan or the cities of Iraq (except that maybe on virtual battlefields we can actually win), notes Frida Berrigan. As though we don't have enough to be ...

UN Big Powers World's Top Military Spenders | Inter Press Service

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:20:00 -0400

"The only winners from increases in global military spending are (US) weapons manufacturers like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman," says Frida Berrigan, senior programme associate with the New America Foundation's Arms and Security Initiative...