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Defense Monitor Newsletter

  • Representatives are Too Invested in Defense Contractors (Fall-Winter 2022)

    Inflation Bailout or Baloney? Senate Increases Military Contract Funding, to Industry’s Delight ... Use of Chinese Material in F-35 Highlights Pentagon’s Complexity Problem ... State Dept. is Quietly Approving Former Servicemembers’ Work for Foreign Interests. That’s a Problem.

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  • Air Force Leaders Defy Congress’s A-10 Mandates (Summer 2022)

    Air Force Leaders Threatened by Relevant, Factual A-10 Information ... The Bunker: U.S Arms for Ukraine – Supply Line or Tripwire? ... Future F-35 Upgrades Send Program into Tailspin

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2022

  1. F-35 Program Stagnated in 2021 but DOD Testing Office Hiding Full Extent of Problem
  2. Air Force Leaders Defy Congress’s A-10 Mandates
  3. Representatives are Too Invested in Defense Contractors

2021

  1. The Navy Wants to Throw Its Internal Auditor Overboard
  2. What Price "Defense"?
  3. POGO Remembers Pierre Sprey
  4. Afghanistan Proved Eisenhower Correct

2020

  1. Never the Pentagon
  2. Beware the Pentagon's Pandemic Profiteers
  3. National (In)Security and the Pentagon Budget
  4. Shrinking the Pentagon

2019

  1. Our Man from Boeing
  2. Smaller Budgets Will Result in a More Effective Military
  3. F-35 Test Fleet Struggling with Low Readiness Rates
  4. The Pentagon's War on Transparency

2018

  1. Close Air Support Fly-Off Farce
  2. The Complexity Vortex
  3. Dodging the Formal Acquisition Process
  4. Space Force: A Historical Perspective

2017

  1. F-35 Continues to Stumble
  2. How Not To Build A Ship: The USS Ford
  3. The Military's Leadership Problem
  4. $21 Billion Worth of F-35 Concurrency Orphans?

2016

  1. President Trump, Don’t Forget to Nominate a Tough Operational Testing Director
  2. The Pentagon's War on Accountability
  3. F-35 May Never Be Ready for Combat
  4. The Truth About Military Spending

2015

  1. America’s Bloated and Unsecure Nuclear Weapons Complex
  2. Developing, Buying, and Fielding Superior Weapon Systems
  3. Is the Pentagon Crying Wolf over Its Budget?
  4. Personnel Reform and Military Effectiveness
  5. Announcing the CDI Military Advisory Board

2014

  1. America’s $1 Trillion National Security Budget
  2. The Contamination of Camp Lejeune
  3. Independent Weapons Testing: Under Fire Again

2013

  1. If More Money Buys a Smaller Fleet, What Will Less Money Buy?
  2. The New Era of Good F-35 Feelings
  3. Purge the Generals: What it will take to fix the Army
  4. Budget Deal Blows the Pentagon’s Diet

2012

  1. Defense Budget Sequester: Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be
  2. Fundamentals for an Austere Pentagon Are Escaping Washington’s Gaze

Books, Resources, and Other Publications

  • Congressional Oversight Initiative Workbook

    This workbook, a supplement to The Art of Congressional Oversight, is designed to guide congressional staff through each of the four stages of effective oversight — the investigation, the report, the hearing, and the follow up. It provides detailed instructions and best practices for completing the included templates.

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  • The Art of Congressional Oversight

    POGO developed a congressional oversight handbook to help improve the quality of oversight activities on the Hill. Practical, humorous, and readable, the handbook is a treasure-trove of valuable information for congressional staffers, students, political scientists, and the public.

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  • America's Defense Meltdown

    The vast majority, perhaps even all, of Congress, the general officer corps of the armed forces, top management of American defense manufacturers, prominent members of Washington’s think-tank community and nationally recognized “defense journalists” will hate this book.

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  • The Pentagon Labyrinth: 10 Short Essays to Help You Through It

    Intended for readers who are frustrated with the superficial nature of the debate on national security, this handbook takes advantage of the insights of ten unique professionals, each with decades of experience in the armed services, the Pentagon bureaucracy, Congress, the intelligence community, military history, journalism and other disciplines.

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  • Caught between Conscience and Career

    This survival guide—a collaboration of The Government Accountability Project, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, and POGO—serves to help government employees protect themselves when choosing to blow the whistle.

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