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William Hartung of the Center for International Policy wrote that the Pentagon's proposed tiny spending cut is "not the kind of strategic shift we need if we are going to restore our position of global leadership." "Economic security should be our top ...

"The Pentagon's proposed reductions in its spending plans are far too low," according to William Hartung, a veteran defense analyst at the Washington-based Center for International Policy. "If the administration were to follow up on its own rhetoric on ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

“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 ...

However, in an article published by Democracy Now with the title “US Economy Sacrificed for Military Bias” written by Michael Hudson, William Hartung of the Center for International Policy said Pentagon could work around the cut by reducing veterans' ...

“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 ...

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 ...

William Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation, told the Huffington Post that the potential $1 billion is a "relatively modest sum" in the context of America's annual military spending, which tops $700 ...

William Hartung, author of Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex, told Justin Rohrlich of Minyanville, “It's really on the cutting-edge of questionable practices. The fact that it does an end-run around ...

The U.S. State department controls the flow of American weapons and weapons systems — and is supposed to make sure they're used in accordance with human rights. So what should happen when U.S. allies use American arms against their own peacefully protesting citizens? Host Melissa Block speaks with arms export expert William Hartung. He's the director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation.