Stories by Cindy Williams

Cindy Williams is a principal research scientist in the Security Studies Program at MIT and the editor of Filling the Ranks: Transforming the U.S. Military Personnel System (MIT Press, 2004).subscribe to Cindy Williams's rss feed

Homeland Security: A Costly Mess

Posted on May 9, 2007, Source: MIT Center for International Studies

The Dept. of Homeland Security was created to bring coherence to the disparate activities of numerous agencies involved in domestic security. Four years later, the United States is not getting what it should out of the reorganization.

America's Disastrous Budgets

Posted on Jul 5, 2006, Source: AlterNet

After Sept. 11, federal budgets for national security rose drastically -- so why aren't the ensuing funded programs making us any safer?

Filling the Army's Ranks for the Iraq War

Posted on Feb 8, 2006, Source: AlterNet

Considering that the public is widely opposed to a draft, and that a draft won't fill the military's recruitment problem immediately, it's time to reconsider our options.
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