Contact List of Experts

Robert Borosage
202-955-5655
borosage@ourfuture.org
Areas of expertise: national security, budget issues.

Robert Borosage is co-director of the Campaign for America's Future and serves on the advisory committee for the Foreign Policy In Focus project. He has written widely for publications including New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Nation.

 

Danielle Brian
202-347-1122
pogo@pogo.org
Areas of expertise: wasteful defense spending, defense contractor fraud, faulty weapons including F-22, acquisition reform, and contractor oversight.

Danielle Brian is executive director at the Project on Government Oversight. Working with whistleblowers and other inside sources, Ms. Brian investigates and exposes cases of fraud, waste, and abuse of power in the military and other federal programs.

 

Carl Conetta
617-547-4474
pda@comw.org
Areas of expertise: Chinese military, Revolution in Military Affairs, military strategy, threat assessment, readiness, and force planning.

Carl Conetta is co-director of the Project on Defense Alternatives at the Commonwealth Institute, Cambridge, MA. Mr. Conetta is editor of the Chinese Military Power Page http://www.comw.org/cmp/ and the RMA Debate Page http://www.comw.org/rma/.

 

Marcus Corbin
202-797-5282
mcorbin@cdi.org
Areas of expertise: military strategy, forces, and spending.

Marcus Corbin is a senior analyst at the Center for Defense Information. He is working on an independent defense review and force structure study to be released this summer.

 

Randall Forsberg
617-354-4337
forsberg@idds.org
Areas of expertise: conventional and nuclear arms.

Randall Forsberg is founder and executive director of the Institute for Defense & Disarmament Studies (IDDS) Cambridge, MA. In 1989 Forsberg briefed President Bush and his Cabinet officials on U.S.-Soviet arms control issues. In 1995 she was appointed by President Clinton to the Advisory Committee of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.

 

John Gershman
609-688-9509, 609-213-2176 (cell)
john@irc-online.org
Areas of expertise: U.S. security policy in Asia with an emphasis on U.S.-China relations.

John is the Asia/Pacific editor of the Foreign Policy in Focus Project and senior analyst with the Interhemispheric Resource Center (IRC).

 

William Hartung
212-229-5808, ext. 106
hartung@newschool.edu
Areas of expertise: missile defense and nuclear weapons lobbies, with special emphasis on costs, contractors, and key constituencies impacted by missile defense and nuclear weapons spending.

William D. Hartung is a Senior Research Fellow at the World Policy Institute at the New School in New York City, member of the advisory committee for the Foreign Policy In Focus project, and the co-author of Tangled Web: The Marketing of Missile Defense 1994-2000.

 

Peter Hayes
510-204-9296
phayes@nautilus.org
Areas of expertise: security affairs in the Asian-Pacific region, arms control and disarmament, nuclear arms, and nuclear states.

Peter Hayes is executive director of the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development, a non-governmental policy-oriented research and advocacy group. Professionally active as an environment and energy consultant in developing countries.

 

Theresa Hitchens
202-797-5269
thitchens@cdi.org
Areas of expertise: conventional and nuclear arms control, NATO and European security affairs, international defense trade.

Theresa Hitchens is senior adviser at the Center for Defense Information. Her previous positions include Brussels bureau chief, and then editor, of Defense News; and research director at the British American Security Information Council.

 

John Isaacs
202-543-4100
jdi@clw.org
Areas of expertise: National Missile Defense, nuclear reductions, non-proliferation programs, and military spending.

John Isaacs is president of the Council for a Livable World.

 

Michael Klare
413-559-5563
mklare@hampshire.edu
Areas of expertise: U.S. defense policy, the arms trade, and world security affairs.

Michael Klare is the Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies and director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies (PAWSS), a position he has held since 1985.

 

Charles Knight
617-547-4474
pda@comw.org
Areas of expertise: U.S. military strategy, readiness, and force planning.

Charles Knight is co-director of the Project on Defense Alternatives at the Commonwealth Institute, Cambridge, MA. Mr. Knight is editor of the QDR Page http://www.comw.org/qdr/.

 

Lawrence Korb
212-434-9630
Areas of expertise: national security organization, policy, and process; U.S. foreign policy, arms control, and defense budget; NATO.

Lawrence Korb, formerly Assistant Secretary of Defense (1981-85), now director of National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations.

 

Dan Koslofsky
202-543-4100
dan@clw.org
Areas of expertise: conventional weapons systems, military readiness issues, and defense spending legislation.

Dan Koslofsky, policy analyst at the Council for a Livable World, is currently writing a briefing book on defense spending issues titled "Indefensible Spending" which is expected to be released in June.

 

Miriam Pemberton
202-234-9382 ext. 214
ncecd@igc.org
Areas of expertise: arms trade, budget, economic conversion.

Miriam Pemberton is a research fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and the Military Affairs editor for Foreign Policy In Focus.

 

John Pike
703-548-2700
john@globalsecurity.org
Areas of expertise: space and intelligence policy.

John Pike is director of GlobalSecurity.org. He is widely noted for his ability to translate complex technical information into concise and pithy soundbites.

 

Stephen I. Schwartz
773-702-0077
sschwartz@thebulletin.org
Areas of expertise: history and costs of U.S. nuclear weapons and infrastructure, nuclear weapons production and testing programs and facilities, nuclear waste, management and disposal, nuclear weapons, secrecy and congressional oversight of nuclear weapons programs.

Stephen I. Schwartz is the publisher of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and executive director of the Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science.

 

Col. Daniel Smith, USA (Ret.)
202-797-5280
dsmith@cdi.org
Areas of expertise: military strategy, forces, and spending

Col. Smith is chief of research at the Center for Defense Information. He is working on an independent defense review and force structure study to be released this summer. Col. Smith brings to bear his 26 years of service in the Army on questions related to defense reviews.

 

Cindy Williams
617-253-1825
cindywil@mit.edu
Areas of expertise: the overall U.S. defense budget, policy choices for U.S. conventional forces, and prospects for efficiency reforms.

Cindy Williams is a principal research scientist in the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the editor of Holding the Line: U.S. Defense Alternatives for the Early 21st Century (MIT Press, 2001).

 


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