Defense Monitor

The Defense Monitor is a quarterly publication about the military-industrial-congressional complex.

Looking to challenge the status quo in how the U.S. approaches national security? The Defense Monitor, a quarterly publication featuring the work of POGO’s Center for Defense Information, takes a deep dive into the world of defense spending, scrutinizing the military-industrial-congressional complex and building a case for a rational national security policy based on needs, not corporate or political interests.

: Congressional Oversight of Defense Spending
: Why the A-10 Warthog Retirement is a Disaster
F-35 Testing Report Reveals Problems with Production Decisions
: China Threat Inflation and America’s Nonsensical Plans
Testifying Before Congress
CDI by the Numbers
F-35 and A-10 Close Air Support Flyoff Report
: F-35 Program Stagnated in 2021 but DOD Testing Office Hiding Full Extent of Problem
Air Force Leaders Defy Congress’s A-10 Mandates
Representatives are Too Invested in Defense Contractors
: The Navy Wants to Throw Its Internal Auditor Overboard
What Price “Defense”?
POGO Remembers Pierre Sprey
Afghanistan Proved Eisenhower Correct
: Never the Pentagon
Beware the Pentagon’s Pandemic Profiteers
National (In)Security and the Pentagon Budget
Shrinking the Pentagon
: Our Man from Boeing
Smaller Budgets Will Result in a More Effective Military
F-35 Test Fleet Struggling with Low Readiness Rates
The Pentagon’s War on Transparency
: Close Air Support Fly-Off Farce
The Complexity Vortex
Dodging the Formal Acquisition Process
Space Force: A Historical Perspective
: F-35 Continues to Stumble
How Not To Build A Ship: The USS Ford
The Military’s Leadership Problem
$21 Billion Worth of F-35 Concurrency Orphans?
: The Truth About Military Spending
The Pentagon’s War on Accountability
F-35 May Never Be Ready for Combat
President Trump, Don’t Forget to Nominate a Tough Operational Testing Director
: America’s Bloated and Unsecure Nuclear Weapons Complex
Developing, Buying, and Fielding Superior Weapon Systems
Is the Pentagon Crying Wolf over Its Budget?
Personnel Reform and Military Effectiveness
Announcing the CDI Military Advisory Board
: America’s $1 Trillion National Security Budget
The Contamination of Camp Lejeune
Independent Weapons Testing: Under Fire Again
: If More Money Buys a Smaller Fleet, What Will Less Money Buy?
The New Era of Good F-35 Feelings
Purge the Generals: What it will take to fix the Army
Budget Deal Blows the Pentagon’s Diet
: Defense Budget Sequester: Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be
Fundamentals for an Austere Pentagon Are Escaping Washington’s Gaze

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