Analysis - /analysis/2010/the-presidents-budget-fy2011/
Feb. 8, 2010 - This publication reviews Presidential budget requests spanning fiscal years 2008 to 2012 which include requested spending authorities from the final Bush budget to the Obama administration's projected...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/02/02/dont-call-it-a-defense-budget/
Feb. 2, 2010 - ...military spending as sacrosanct."At $744 billion, the military budget -- including military programs outside the Pentagon, such as the Department of Energy's nuclear weapons management -- is a budget ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/02/01/pentagon-budget-reflects-reform-goals/
Feb. 1, 2010 - ...military and on non-military foreign engagement is not in our best interests," she said. "The budget released today actually makes this situation worse, and his own department's budget is primarily re...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/02/01/big-war-spending-continues-under-obama/
Feb. 1, 2010 - ...military budget.U.S. troops are to leave Iraq by the end of 2011, but Obama is seeking to escalate the U.S. presence in Afghanistan to step up the fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban.Obama announce...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/01/30/pentagon-shifts-its-strategy-to-small-scale-warfar/
Jan. 30, 2010 - ...military's most costly and complex weapons programs, including the Air Force's most advanced and expensive fighter, the F-22 Raptor. Reflecting a rebalancing of the military toward irregular warfare, ...
Analysis - /analysis/2010/data-for-democracy-2010-webinar-series-launches-wi/
Jan. 22, 2010 - National Priorities Project is proud to announce the launch of the 2010 Data for Democracy webinar series with Out of Balance. The goal of the webinar series is to help our constituents – electe...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/01/15/jared-loughner-and-the-paranoid-style/
Jan. 15, 2010 - aul Street is an independent policy researcher, journalist, historian, and speaker. He is the author of several books, including 'Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11' and most rece...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/01/15/qa-cost-of-iraq-afghanistan-tops-1-trillion/
Jan. 15, 2010 - ...military operations slows in Iraq and quickens in Afghanistan.HOW MUCH HAS BEEN SPENT ALREADY?Congress has approved $1.05 trillion dollars for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the Nation...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/11/30/afghan-war-cost-grips-both-parties/
Nov. 30, 2009 - ...military operations in Afghanistan, which average about $3.6 billion per month.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/11/20/pointless-war-is-draining-funds-risking-security/
Nov. 20, 2009 - We often hear in American political rhetoric that the war in Iraq is unjust, but that Afghanistan is the "good war." It is important that we, as a nation, become aware that this is a false claim and t...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/11/18/in-our-opinion-rethinking-priorities/
Nov. 18, 2009 - ...military spending is now more than the defense budgets of the next 14 nations combined, NPP calculates, and represents almost 50 percent of all military spending worldwide. According to one of the gro...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/10/26/where-the-cia-got-it-wrong-about-the-us/
Oct. 26, 2009 - Memo to the CIA: You may not be prepared for time-travel, but welcome to 2025 anyway! Your rooms may be a little small, your ability to demand better accommodations may have gone out the window, and t...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/10/20/three-cheers-for-the-war-dividend/
Oct. 20, 2009 - ...military slated to grow by at least 25% over the next decade?Forget about the butter. It's bad for you anyway. And sheer military power, as well as the money behind it, assures the country of a thick ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/10/08/stuck-in-kabul-with-saigon-blues-again/
Oct. 8, 2009 - Some things never change. It was "only" eight years ago that the George W Bush administration unleashed its mini-shock and awe over Afghanistan to, in theory, smash the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Stuck ins...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/10/06/eight-years-of-us-war-in-afghanistan-the-dollars-a/
Oct. 6, 2009 - WASHINGTON - October 6 - October 7, 2009 marks the eighth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. National Priorities Project (NPP) analyses find that, to date, U.S. military operations in Af...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/09/28/850-empty-combat-boots-stand-at-attention-in-obama/
Sept. 28, 2009 - ...Military Families Speak Out (MFSO), a military family organization opposed to war and The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker organization dedicated to peace and non-violence, will hos...
Analysis - /analysis/2009/health-care-information-npps-database-is-a-one-sto/
Aug. 26, 2009 - Health care is one of the most pressing issues of our time. National Priorities Project can help you participate in the healthcare debate. NPP is the only resource in the country providing data that s...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/07/16/national-priorities-project-tallies-cost-of-war-th/
July 16, 2009 - ...Military Personnel, Operations & Maintenance, Procurement, and Military Construction; Department of State provisions including Diplomatic and Consular Programs and Economic Support; and Department...
Analysis - /analysis/2009/the-presidents-budget-fy2010/
May 18, 2009 - This publication offers a look at federal budgets spanning 2008 to 2010, including the Obama administration's first budget.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/05/08/cost-of-war-in-afghanistan-over-178-billion-and-co/
May 8, 2009 - ...military operations in Afghanistan, including military construction and the highly controversial Predator and Reaper drones. As these three Reps suggest, Congress shouldn't approve the supplemental un...
