“Fiscal Year 2011 Defense Spending Request:Briefing Book”
Laicie Olson, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, February
2010
http://www.armscontrolcenter.org/assets/pdfs/FY_2011_Briefing_Book_Final.pdf
Taxpayers for Common Sense, regularly updated analysis of the budget
http://www.taxpayer.net/resources.php?category=&type=Project&proj_id=3136&action=Headlines%20By%20TCS
“Gates Shakes Up Leadership for F-35”
New York Times, February 2, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/us/politics/02pentagon.html
Best line of the article: “The defense industry is pleased but
bemused,” said Loren Thompson, the chief operating officer at the
Lexington Institute, a policy group financed partly by military
contractors. “It’s been telling itself for years that when the
Democrats got control it would be bad news for weapons programs. But
the spending keeps going on.”
“Obama Seeks Money for Nuclear Weapons Work”
Associated Press, February 1, 2010
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/01/AR2010020103384.html
The administration on Monday asked Congress for more than $7 billion
for activities related to nuclear weapons in the budget of the
National Nuclear Security Administration, an increase of $624 million
from the 2010 fiscal year.
QDR RESOURCES
“Vision Meets Reality: 2010 QDR and 2011 Defense Budget”
A (very timely) report by Travis Sharp, Center for a New American
Security, February 1, 2010
http://www.cnas.org/node/4054
“How to Read the QDR”
a shorter piece based Sharp’s report was published by Foreign Policy
Magazine, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/02/01/how_to_read_the_qdr
“QDR: Pentagon Revises Its Long-Held Two-War Doctrine”
Christian Science Monitor, February 1, 2010.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2010/0201/QDR-Pentagon-revises-its-long-held-two-war-doctrine
Quadrennial Defense Review (128 pages)
http://www.comw.org/qdr/fulltext/1002QDR2010.pdf
For a deeper analysis of trends in military spending
“An Undisciplined Defense: Understanding the $2 Trillion Surge in US
Defense Spending”
Carl Conetta, Project on Defense Alternatives, January 2010.
http://www.comw.org/pda/fulltext/1001PDABR20exsum.pdf