Carl Conetta

Carl Conetta is co-director of the Project on Defense Alternatives at the Commonwealth Institute and a contributor to Foreign Policy In Focus.

Michèle Flournoy Reveals Why US Troops May Stay in Afghanistan – Indefinitely

Reprinted from Project on Defense Alternatives with permission. Commentary on “Ending Our Endless War in Afghanistan: Washington Perspectives on a US-Taliban Agreement” – A US Institute of Peace panel w/ Michèle Flournoy and Stephen Hadley, February 18, 2020 In this February 2020 panel on the US-Taliban agreement, prospective Biden SecDef Michèle Flournoy emphasizes the “phased, … Continue reading “Michèle Flournoy Reveals Why US Troops May Stay in Afghanistan – Indefinitely”

Poll: Public Supports $100 Billion Annual Cut to Pentagon

A recent poll on deficit reduction takes an interesting approach to querying the public about policy options: First it informs participants about actual spending levels in discretionary accounts and then asks them to apply reductions, account by account. The result: a mean reduction to annual discretionary spending of $146 billion. Of this, the participants take … Continue reading “Poll: Public Supports $100 Billion Annual Cut to Pentagon”