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Carl Conetta
Co-Director
Threat assessment, US defense policy and planning, military transformation and readiness issues Military defense, defense alternatives, disarmament, arms control, defense budget, military strategy, "strategic precision attack", NATO expansion, military "readiness", confidence building, public opinion on defense spending, China and Chinese military issues, assessing threats to US national security, defense strategy and budgeting, critical appraisal of the war in Afghanistan, casualties in the war in Afghanistan, the new kinds of terrorism and how to fight it; number of Iraqi casualties and how that affects the US occupation
Project on Defense Alternatives
Chris Toensing
Executive Director
Israeli-Palestinian conflict; US policy in Middle East; Iraq: history of weapons inspections, what past inspectors have said, US policy toward Iraq, removal of Saddam Hussein and what a post-Saddam future would be like, how Iraq fits in with the calculations of its neighbors, UN sanctions on Iraq/no-fly zones; how US policy is being received in the Arab world; Arab public opinion; Arab media; US military aid to Middle East/Persian Gulf; Egypt; NOT good on Central Asia
The Middle East Research and Information
Conn Hallinan
Contributor
Latin America, emergence of region,military spending, military strategy, consequences of military spending (effects on state and federal programs, trade-offs), weapons systems and defense, what programs/equipment/systems the defense budget will be spent on
Foreign Policy in Focus
Kathy Kelly
Co-Coordinator, Voices for Creative Nonviolence
UN/US sanctions against Iraq, Humanitarian efforts; Iraq conditions, war in Iraq, injuries and damage; Christian Peacemaker Teams captured in Iraq
Voices for Creative Nonviolence
Patricia DeGennaro
Adjunct Assistan Professor, New York University's Center for Global Affairs
US Foreign Policy, International Security, Civil Military Affairs, Military Policy, Wartime and Post-Conflict Transition
Huffington Post

Obama’s Decision to Add More Troops:

Is He Right or Wrong?
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Obama’s Decision to Add More Troops:

December 1, 2010 in a nationally televised address from the United States Military Academy at West Point, President Obama will officially announce that he has decided to expedite the deployment of 30,000 additional American troops to Afghanistan over the next six months, bringing the troop total to over 100,000. The announcement comes after months of deliberation about the course to pursue in Afghanistan. The President is also expected to declare a commitment to removing all troops from Afghanistan within 3 years.