Publications

What Price "Defense"? (Summer 2021)

What Congress Needs to Do to Get the F-35 Program on Track ... The Key Reason the U.S. Lost in Afghanistan ... Pentagon Spending Ripe for Reduction and Reform

The Navy Wants to Throw Its Internal Auditor Overboard (Spring 2021)

Joe Biden’s Nuclear Triad ... The F-35 and Other Legacies of Failure ... Why Are We Still Giving the Pentagon More Money?

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.

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.

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.

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.