Center for Defense Information

The goal of the Center for Defense Information is to build a far more effective national security policy at a significantly lower cost.

The Center for Defense Information seeks to achieve the elusive goal of meaningful Pentagon reform by fostering a fundamentally better informed public on questions such as the size and nature of the defense budget, especially its many offenses to the American taxpayer, a Congress more inclined to perform real oversight—rather than the pretense, and affordable, effective weapons that service the needs of the men and women in our armed forces—rather than the gluttony of selfish elements of corporations and a dysfunctional political system. CDI has also sought to probe the origins and costs—human and material—of the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere so that such tragedies can be avoided in the future.