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Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Dereliction of Duty (Defense)

Dereliction of Duty (Defense) Budget Malfeasance Review DVD: Why We Fight (2006) Review: Averting the Defense Train Wreck in the New Millennium (CSIS Report) Review: Blank Check–The Pentagon’s Black Budget Review: Making America’s Budget Policy–From the 1980s to the 1990s (Paperback) Review: National Defense Review: The Fifty Year Wound–The True Price of America’s Cold War …

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Memorandum: $2 Billion Obligation Plan Centered on Defense, for a New Open Source Agency

This is the budget created to support Col Vincent Stewart, USMC, then the action officer for surveying Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) reequirements and capabilities across the Department of Defense (DoD).  This amount–not necessarily these specific priorities–was offered to the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), which continues to have the only full-spectrum OSINT capability in the …

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2004 General Accountability Office (GAO) Report: Defense Acquisitiions: The Global Information Grid and Challenges Facing Its Implementation

Oops 2004: The most critical challenge ahead for DOD is making the GIG a reality. While DOD has taken steps to define its vision and objectives for the GIG on paper and in policy and is beginning to make a heavy investment in the GIG as well as systems that will be heavily dependent on …

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2001 Gessaman (US) Understanding the Federal Budget–If It Is Not in the Budget, It is Not Policy

Don Gessaman was the Deputy Associate  Director for National Security at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for over a decade, and in that capacity managed the oversight, as the most senior civil servant in OMB for defense, diplomacy, aid, and intelligence.  Today Kathleen Peroff manages this money, over one trillion dollars a year, …

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