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).
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.
Posted on May 9, 2007, Source: MIT Center for International Studies
After Sept. 11, federal budgets for national security rose drastically -- so why aren't the ensuing funded programs making us any safer?
Posted on Jul 5, 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.
Posted on Feb 8, 2006, Source: AlterNet
