FPIF Issues: Military http://www.fpif.org/issues/military FPIF Issues: Military Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:05:14 -0500 en-us 38.906778-77.041481 Sequential Drone Attacks Double the Brutality http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/Military/~3/cBAt0Q_7kWY/sequential_drone_attacks_double_the_brutality http://www.fpif.org/blog/sequential_drone_attacks_double_the_brutality Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:25:35 -0500 The United States levels the moral playing field by blasting it to pieces.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/Military/~4/cBAt0Q_7kWY" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/blog/sequential_drone_attacks_double_the_brutality Using Pro-Life to Sell Nuclear Disarmament http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/Military/~3/tdP7txaUfko/using_pro-life_to_sell_nuclear_disarmament http://www.fpif.org/blog/using_pro-life_to_sell_nuclear_disarmament Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:01:00 -0500 Evangelicals and Catholics have been known to conflate abortion and nuclear war.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/Military/~4/tdP7txaUfko" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/blog/using_pro-life_to_sell_nuclear_disarmament Playing One Side Off the Other Only Hurts Pakistan in the End http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/Military/~3/hIu6aDNNfFc/playing_one_side_off_the_other_only_hurts_pakistan_in_the_end http://www.fpif.org/blog/playing_one_side_off_the_other_only_hurts_pakistan_in_the_end Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:06:11 -0500 A state whose national-security policy is founded on duplicity founders there.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/Military/~4/hIu6aDNNfFc" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/blog/playing_one_side_off_the_other_only_hurts_pakistan_in_the_end Syrian Repression, the Chinese-Russian Veto, and U.S. Hypocrisy http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/Military/~3/VHX106Shjis/syrian_repression_the_chinese-russian_veto_and_us_hypocrisy http://www.fpif.org/articles/syrian_repression_the_chinese-russian_veto_and_us_hypocrisy Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:10:00 -0500 The Russian and Chinese veto of the moderate and reasonable UN Security Council resolution was unconscionable, but the United States may have its own hypocrisy to thank.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/Military/~4/VHX106Shjis" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/articles/syrian_repression_the_chinese-russian_veto_and_us_hypocrisy The Not-So-Great Game http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/Military/~3/VZsQ2jvpol4/the_not-so-great_game http://www.fpif.org/articles/the_not-so-great_game Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:10:37 -0500 What would happen if we stopped playing games with Iran?<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/Military/~4/VZsQ2jvpol4" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/articles/the_not-so-great_game Israel v. Iran: "U.S. Assets" Might Not Be American http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/Military/~3/b7L7ieLiYM0/israel_v_iran_us_assets_might_not_be_american http://www.fpif.org/blog/israel_v_iran_us_assets_might_not_be_american Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:00:19 -0500 The term "U.S. assets" is a little too open to interpretation.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/Military/~4/b7L7ieLiYM0" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/blog/israel_v_iran_us_assets_might_not_be_american Pentagon Well-Fed While States and Cities Live on Subsistence Diet http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/Military/~3/ZlVqbRlJsxU/pentagon_well-fed_while_states_and_cities_live_on_subsistence_diet http://www.fpif.org/blog/pentagon_well-fed_while_states_and_cities_live_on_subsistence_diet Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:00:00 -0500 Instead of firing teachers, closing libraries and senior centers, and cutting bus routes, let's put the Pentagon on a diet.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/Military/~4/ZlVqbRlJsxU" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/blog/pentagon_well-fed_while_states_and_cities_live_on_subsistence_diet Maintaining Capability to Wage a Second War Asking for Trouble http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/Military/~3/oo0lbL3Mmts/maintaining_capability_to_wage_a_second_war_asking_for_trouble http://www.fpif.org/blog/maintaining_capability_to_wage_a_second_war_asking_for_trouble Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:10:59 -0500 Just like anything else, with national-security strategy nature abhors a vacuum.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/Military/~4/oo0lbL3Mmts" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/blog/maintaining_capability_to_wage_a_second_war_asking_for_trouble Dear Secretary Panetta: U.S. Taxpayers Have Better Things to Do With Their Money Than Fund Nukes in Europe http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/Military/~3/WCYmSrTa-c8/dear_secretary_panetta_us_taxpayers_have_better_things_to_do_with_their_money_than_fund_nukes_in_europe http://www.fpif.org/blog/dear_secretary_panetta_us_taxpayers_have_better_things_to_do_with_their_money_than_fund_nukes_in_europe Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:10:14 -0500 The Project for Government Oversight has written a letter to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta reminding him that it's U.S. taxpayers who pay for nuclear weapons in Europe.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/Military/~4/WCYmSrTa-c8" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/blog/dear_secretary_panetta_us_taxpayers_have_better_things_to_do_with_their_money_than_fund_nukes_in_europe Iran and Post-Withdrawal Iraq http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/Military/~3/dxfg6fpD-Js/iran_and_post-withdrawal_iraq http://www.fpif.org/articles/iran_and_post-withdrawal_iraq Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:20:00 -0500 Iraq knows that Iran -- unlike America and other Western forces -- is there to stay.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/Military/~4/dxfg6fpD-Js" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/articles/iran_and_post-withdrawal_iraq