http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PDAnewsandviews/ Project on Defense Alternatives Bulletin Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:18:10 GMT Charles Knight http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PDAnewsandviews/message/70 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PDAnewsandviews/message/70 In preparation for greater attention to defense policy and planning in anticipation of the fourth Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) to be published by the DoD Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:23:22 GMT Charles Knight http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PDAnewsandviews/message/69 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PDAnewsandviews/message/69 Update from the Project on Defense Alternatives Military power should be used rarely and only when defending the nation and its most important international Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:59:50 GMT Charles Knight http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PDAnewsandviews/message/68 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PDAnewsandviews/message/68 We have created the group "Friends of the Project on Defense Alternatives" on FaceBook. Please join us at: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:00:59 GMT Charles Knight http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PDAnewsandviews/message/67 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PDAnewsandviews/message/67 Dust-up between the New York Times and the White House masks willful ignorance by Charles Knight The recent dust-up between the New York Times and the White Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:49:21 GMT Charles Knight http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PDAnewsandviews/message/66 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PDAnewsandviews/message/66 During the next 22 months, all of America's defense policy guidance will be rewritten and, to some as yet unknown extent, revised. Relevant to this process, Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:53:00 GMT Charles Knight http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PDAnewsandviews/message/65 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PDAnewsandviews/message/65 Newly posted on WAR REPORT -- 1st available English text of the "final draft" US-Iraq status of forces agreement: "An agreement regarding the temporary U.S. Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:38:03 GMT Charles Knight http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PDAnewsandviews/message/64 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PDAnewsandviews/message/64 On July 25th Charles Knight appeared on a panel at the U.S. Institute of Peace with Kimberly Kagan, Colin Kahl, and Rend al-Rahim to address "The Future of the Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:23:21 GMT Charles Knight http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PDAnewsandviews/message/63 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PDAnewsandviews/message/63 Quickly, Carefully, and Generously: The Necessary Steps for a Responsible Withdrawal from Iraq -- Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:11:17 GMT Charles Knight http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PDAnewsandviews/message/62 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PDAnewsandviews/message/62 The Project on Defense Alternatives has just completed a major update to its web sites and libraries. On our main page http://www.comw.org/pda/ please take a Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:37:07 GMT Charles Knight http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PDAnewsandviews/message/61 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PDAnewsandviews/message/61 Carl Conetta will be interviewed by Terry Gross on "the way out of Iraq" for Fresh Air, airing in a special two part show Wednesday and Thursday the 16th and Sun, 09 Dec 2007 04:10:08 GMT Charles Knight http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PDAnewsandviews/message/60 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PDAnewsandviews/message/60 New: "A Prisoner to Primacy" by Carl Conetta, a commentary on the paralysis of the US security policy debate and why the country may not see a fundamental Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:30:15 GMT Charles Knight http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PDAnewsandviews/message/59 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PDAnewsandviews/message/59 PDA has updated its online Security Policy Libraries, adding 900 listings and links to full-text articles on terrorism and homeland security, US defense Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:51:16 GMT Charles Knight http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PDAnewsandviews/message/58 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PDAnewsandviews/message/58 The Project on Defense Alternatives now has RSS feeds of updates to its War Report and Occupation Distress sites. Get these feeds (of news and analysis of the Thu, 03 May 2007 20:20:57 GMT Charles Knight http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PDAnewsandviews/message/57 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PDAnewsandviews/message/57 Is Washington Preparing the Option of Staying in Iraq for Forty Years? "Congressional Withdrawal Plans, Iraqi Permanent Bases, and More Ground Troops", Issue 4 Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:02:08 GMT Charles Knight http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PDAnewsandviews/message/56 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PDAnewsandviews/message/56 **NEW** "Confronting Iran: Critical perspectives on the current crisis, its origins, and implications," a PDA compilation, February 2007.