DDI+10+Compensation+DA

=CITES!=

Troops on Ground Undermines Modernization
SFC 10 – San Francisco Chronicle, April 16, 2010, “Laser in limbo mirrors tech weapons decline,” online: http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-04-16/business/20851874_1_lockheed-workers-silicon-valley-system

John R. Guardiano, Analyst for the American Spectator, February 4, 2010, “Obama’s Defense Budget,” http://spectator.org/archives/2010/02/04/obamas-defense-budget

New York Times 9 ( Christopher Drew, Covers military contracting and Pentagon spending for The New York Times. He is also the co-author of “Blind Man’s Bluff,” a best-selling book about submarine spying during the Cold War. 2/27/09“Military Contractors Await Details of Obama’s Budget”. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/28/business/28defense.html)

Compensation Generally Happens
Fred Kaplan, @ Slate, 2/26 /9 [The New Pentagon Budget—So New?Obama plans to spend as much on defense as Bush did, []]

Washington Post ‘9 [4/6, Gates Seeks Sharp Turn In Spending, []]

Jeffrey Lewis, PhD - Director of the Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative at the New America Foundation, 2/3/ 10 [NNSA's Big Budget, START and CTBT, []]

David Bogoslaw, @ Business Week, ‘8 [August 23, A New Front for Defense Contractors, []

Winslow T. Wheeler, 31 years working on Capitol Hill with senators from both political parties and the Government Accountability Office, specializing in national security affairs. Currently, he directs the Straus Military Reform Project of the Center for Defense Information, ‘9 [July 17, How Obama Will Outspend Reagan on Defense, []]

Project for Defense Alternatives ‘8 [December, PDA is a member of the Security Policy Working Group and the Unified Security Budget Task Force. It is affiliated with the International Study Group on Alternative Security Policy (Berlin) and the International Security Network (Geneva), []]

Jeffrey Smith, @ Washington Post, ‘9 [Sept 29, Defense Bill, Lauded by White House, Contains Billions in Earmarks, ln]

Gordon Lubold, @ Christian Science Monitor, ‘9 [4/16, Military services largely on board with Gates's defense budget, []]

Washington Independent 1/28 /10 [Defense Analysts Blast Military Exemption to Spending Freeze, [] ]

Brian Beutler, @ Talking Points Memo, ‘9 [April 7, Media Reports Major Defense Budget Cuts As Obama Proposes Increase In Defense Budget, []]

Armand Biroonak, @ Campaign For America’s Future, ‘9 [July 6, Congress Breaks with Administration, Protects Defense Lobby, []]

Lasers is the Deal
Riki Ellison, Chairman and Founder of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, 2/15 /10

Alex Spillius, @ The Telegraph, ‘8 [December 23, US laser warplane under threat from Barack Obama, []] Ralph Vartabedian, @ LA Times, ’95 [The Laser: Air Force's Top Gun?, http://articles.latimes.com/1995-11-30/news/mn-8786_1_air-force-officials]

George Landrith, President of Frontiers of Freedom, a Washington, DC based think tank, 2/24/10 [Obama's bipartisan outreach could start with airborne laser, http://www.humboldtbeacon.com/ci_14463197]

Mark Thompson, @ Times, 10 [2/16, http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1964310,00.html]

William J. Broad, @ New York Times, ’97 [Plan for Airborne Laser Weapon Is Attacked, http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/30/science/plan-for-airborne-laser-weapon-is-attacked.html?pagewanted=all]

Roxana Tiron, @ The Hill, ‘9 [7/14, Obama official defends plan on missile defense, http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/50235-obama-official-defends-plan-on-missile-defense]

Political Affairs ‘9 [5/18, US Defense Budget: Change And Continuity Under Obama, http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/8533/]

National Security Network ‘9 [7/15, Military Military budget Defense f-22 Gates military Missile Defense Obama, http://www.nsnetwork.org/node/1362]

Ralph Vartabedian, @ LA Times, ’95 [The Laser: Air Force's Top Gun?, http://articles.latimes.com/1995-11-30/news/mn-8786_1_air-force-officials]

Leo Michel, Senior Fellow @ Institute For National Strategic Studies – National Defense University, January 10 [Defense Strategy in the Obama Administration, www.ndu.edu/inss/docUploaded/IRIS%20Article%20Leo%20Michel.pdf]

David Bogoslaw, @ Business Week, ‘8 [August 23, A New Front for Defense Contractors, http://www.businessweek.com/print/investor/content/aug2008/pi20080822_702066.htm]

AT: Gates Opposes ABL
Fox News 10 [2/17, http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/17/video-testing-armys-new-airborne-laser/]

Heather Ainsworth, @ USA Today ‘9 [7/25, Defense secretary scores big wins on weapons cuts, http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-07-25-gates-weapons_N.htm]

New York Times ‘9 [4/8, Gates’s Cuts to an Array of Weapons Bring a Fight, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/us/politics/08defense.html]

Benjamin H. Friedman, research fellow in defense and homeland security studies at the Cato Institute and a PhD candidate in political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ‘9 [April 27, The US should cut military spending in half, http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2009/0427/p09s01-coop.html]

Funding/Now Key to ABL/All laser
Steven A. Hildreth, Specialist in National Defense Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division – CRS, ‘7 [July 9, Airborne Laser (ABL): Issues for Congress, http://fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/RL32123.pdf]

Paul Rogers, Professor of peace studies at Bradford University, ‘2 [Directed energy: a new kind of weapon, http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict/article_153.jsp]

Daniel McCoy, @ Wichita Business Journal, 2/12/10 [Boeing completes airborne laser test, http://wichita.bizjournals.com/wichita/stories/2010/02/08/daily33.html]

Trimble 10 – Stephen Trimble, writer for Flight International, February 17, 2010, “Airborne Laser faces uncertain future despite historic intercept test,” Flight International, online: http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2010/02/17/338475/airborne-laser-faces-uncertain-future-despite-historic-intercept.html Hodge 10 – Nathan Hodge, writer for Wired, May 13, 2010, “Zombie Laser Plane Returns to Haunt Washington,” online: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/05/zombie-laser-plane-returns-to-haunt-washington/

Energy Arms Race
Paul Rogers, Professor of Government at Bradford University, ‘2 [Directed energy: a new kind of weapon, http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict/article_153.jsp]

Jeff Hech, M.Ed. Higher Education –MA in Electronic Engineering - Editor @ Laser Focus World, ’84 [Beam Weapons: The Next Arms Race, p. 10-11] It’s only appropriate that the obstacles

Doug Beason, Air Force Colonel with a PhD in physics, ‘5 [The E-Bomb, p. 9-11]

William J. Broad, @ New York Times, ’97 [Plan for Airborne Laser Weapon Is Attacked, http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/30/science/plan-for-airborne-laser-weapon-is-attacked.html?pagewanted=all]

Ralph Vartabedian, @ LA Times, ’95 [The Laser: Air Force's Top Gun?, http://articles.latimes.com/1995-11-30/news/mn-8786_1_air-force-officials]

Dr. Wade Huntley et. al., PhD - & @ Simons Centre for Disarmament and Non-proliferation Research, University of British Columbia, ‘9 [Space Security 2009, http://www.spacesecurity.org/SSI2009.pdf]

David O. Meteyer, MBA @ Univ. of Montana & MA in Security Studies, ‘5 [The Art of Peace: Dissuading China From Developing Counter Space Weapons, http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA435590]

Dr. Gordon R. Mitchell et. al. Assoc Prof of Communication, Teaching Fellows in Communication Dept – U Pitt, ‘1 [“Missile Defence: Trans-Atlantic Diplomacy at a Crossroads” ISIS Briefing on Ballistic Missile Dfence, No. 6. www.isisuk.demon.co.uk/0811/isis/uk/bmd/no6_paper.html]

Edward Reis, Prof. @ Univ. of Bradford, ’92 [Cambridge Studies in International Relations 23, “The Strategic Defense Initiative, p. 145]

Charles S. Robb, Member of the US Senate Committees on Armed Services, ’99 [Washington Quarterly 22.1, Winter, p. ebsco]

Bruce Deblois. (Senior Adjunct Fellow, Science and Technology). November 15, 2002. Council on Foreign Relations Panel Discussion: “Weapons in Space.” Carnegie International Non-Proliferation Conference. www.ceip.org/files/projects/npp/pdf/conference/lottmantranscripts/Deblois.pdf.

HEG/OTHERS Inevitable
Frank J. Gaffney, President of the Center for Security Policy, 2/17/10 [Second to none?, http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/17/second-to-none/]

Rick Ellison, Chairman of Missile Defense Advocacy, 2/12/10 [Laser Shoot Down Forces Congress to Challenge Obama Missile Defense Budget, http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/laser-shoot-down-forces-congress-to-challenge-obama-missile-defense-budget-84229437.html

Dr. Wade Huntley et. al., PhD - & @ Simons Centre for Disarmament and Non-proliferation Research, University of British Columbia, ‘9 [Space Security 2009, http://www.spacesecurity.org/SSI2009.pdf]

No Space Based Laser Strike Weapons

Dr. Wade Huntley et. al., PhD - & @ Simons Centre for Disarmament and Non-proliferation Research, University of British Columbia, ‘9 [Space Security 2009, http://www.spacesecurity.org/SSI2009.pdf] In summary, no space-based strike

Michael Krepon, Prof. of Politics @ Univ. of Virginia, ‘4 [Weapons in the Heavens: A Radical and Reckless Option, http://www.armscontrol.org/print/1689]

Jeffrey Lewis, PhD - Director of the Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative at the New America Foundation, ‘4 [Weapons in the Heavens: A Radical and Reckless Option, http://www.armscontrol.org/print/1689]

Michael Krepon, Prof. of Politics @ Univ. of Virginia, ‘4 [Weapons in the Heavens: A Radical and Reckless Option, http://www.armscontrol.org/print/1689]

Lt Col Bruce M. DeBlois, BS, MS, Union College; PhD, Oxford University, 98 [Winter, Aerospace Power Journal. “Space Sanctuary : A Viable National Strategy.” www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj98/win98/debloistxt.htm]

RUSSIA

RIA Novosti 2/16/10 [How real is the threat of laser weapons?, http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/library/news/2010/space-100216-rianovosti02.htm] Consequently, this project's

Keir A. Lieber, Prof. of IR @ Notre Dame, Daryl G. Press, Prof. of Government @ Dartmouth, ‘6 [International Security 30.4, The Nuclear Dimension of U.S. Primacy, p. muse] The shift in the nuclear

FIRST STRIKE
Hui Zhang, research associate in the Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, ’4 [The Challenge of Hiroshima. Alternatives to Nuclear Weapons, Missiles, Missile Defenses, and Space Weaponization in a Northeast Asian Context, http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/space-weapons/issues/zhang-chinese-perspectives.htm]

Rozoff 10 – Rick Rozoff, contributor to The Centre for Research on Globalization, March 4, 2010, “U.S. Tightens Missile Shield Encirclement Of China And Russia,” online: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17948

Chisak 10 – Alex Chisak, Centre for Research on Globalization, February 6, 2010, “Dangerous Crossroads in US Military Strategy: From Deterrence" to "Nuclear Compelence",” online: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17446

CHINA
Robert Lawson et. al., PhD Manager - International Security Research and Outreach Programme, Foreign Affairs Canada, ‘4 [Space Security 2004, http://www.spacesecurity.org/SSI2004.pdf]

Hui Zhang, research associate in the Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, ‘5 [U.S. Space Weaponization and China, http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2005_12/DEC-CVR]

PROLIF
Randall Forsberg, Director of the Institute for Defense & Disarmament Studies in Cambridge, 2k [Eliminating the Danger, http://bostonreview.net/BR25.2/forsberg.html]

Michael Krepon, Prof. of Politics @ Univ. of Virginia, ‘4 [Weapons in the Heavens: A Radical and Reckless Option, http://www.armscontrol.org/print/1689]

Hui Zhang, research associate in the Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, ’4 [The Challenge of Hiroshima. Alternatives to Nuclear Weapons, Missiles, Missile Defenses, and Space Weaponization in a Northeast Asian Context, http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/space-weapons/issues/zhang-chinese-perspectives.htm]

INDO PAK
Lisa Curtis, Senior Research Fellow in the Asian Studies Center, and James Jay Carafano, Ph.D., is Assistant Director of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies and Senior Research Fellow in the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies, ‘9 [January 27, U.S.–India Strategic Partnership on Laser-Based Missile Defense, http://www.heritage.org/research/asiaandthepacific/wm2250.cfm]

Todd Fine, WSI Program Assistant, ‘8 [March 5, Missile Defense: A Wrong Turn for U.S.-India Cooperation?, http://www.cdi.org/friendlyversion/printversion.cfm?documentID=4227]

ECON
Hui Zhang, research associate in the Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, ’4 [The Challenge of Hiroshima. Alternatives to Nuclear Weapons, Missiles, Missile Defenses, and Space Weaponization in a Northeast Asian Context, http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/space-weapons/issues/zhang-chinese-perspectives.htm]

Aerial Refueling
Steven A. Hildreth, Specialist in National Defense Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division – CRS, ‘7 [July 9, Airborne Laser (ABL): Issues for Congress, http://fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/RL32123.pdf]

Lexington Institute ‘6 [Modernizing the Aerial Refueling Fleet, http://www.northropgrumman.com/kc45/media_center/data/AerialRefueling.pdf]

Steven A. Hildreth, Specialist in National Defense Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division – CRS, ‘7 [July 9, Airborne Laser (ABL): Issues for Congress, http://fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/RL32123.pdf]

CPGS LINK EV
- The Quote is Going forward, progress in military technology is likely to become an alternative means for compensating for the withdrawal of bases

Budget Shift LInk Air Force Magazine 7-29-2009. [Gloomy Forecast, p. http://www.airforce-magazine.com/DRArchive/Pages/2009/July%202009/July%2029%202009/GloomyForecast.aspx]

Simpson 9 Jason Simpson, staff writer, 4-3-2009. [Inside the Air Force 20.13, Air Force Developing New Conventional ICBM Delivery Vehicle, p. http://web.mit.edu/aeroastro/labs/halab/papers/ITAF%204-3-09.pdf] The Air Force is quietly .....

David A. Fulghum, Robert Wall and John M. Doyle, staff writers, 4-10-2006. [Aviation Week & Space Technology, 164.15, Parallel Paths; Separate aircraft, missile efforts loom for USAF Long-Range Strike pro-gram, p. ln] The U.S. Air Force's nascent Long-Range Strike project, which underpins the hopes of much of the U.S. aerospace industry, is breaking into separate missile and aircraft efforts. Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Moseley says

CPGS Bad
Sugden 9 Bruce M. Sugden, defense analyst based in Washington, Summer 2009. [International Security 34.1, Speed Kills: Analyzing the Deployment of Conventional Ballistic Missiles, p. informaworld] Were the nuclear adversary

Müller 7 H. Müller, researcher at the UN Institute of Disarmament Research, Summer 2007. [A New Arms Race? We’re in the Middle of it The US missiles planned for Poland reflect a new cycle of armament, http://www.ip-global.org/archiv/volumes/2007/summer2007/download/65086152078611dcbc86331f1fe270737073/original_ipge_2_mueller.pdf] The symbolic abandonment

Martin 9 Matthew Martin, program officer in Policy Analysis and Dialogue at the Stanley Foundation, January 2009. [Stanley Foundation, New Understanding of Security Threats Must Drive Rethink of US Nuclear Weapons Policy, http://www.stanleyfoundation.org/resources.cfm?id=371] At the same time, simply replacing nuclear with

Sugden 9 Bruce M. Sugden, defense analyst based in Washington, Summer 2009. [International Security 34.1, Speed Kills: Analyzing the Deployment of Conventional Ballistic Missiles, p. informaworld] Were the nuclear

Lichterman 7 Andrew Lichterman, Program Director and Research Analyst for Western States Legal Foundation, 4-7-2007. [Disarmament Activist, Next generation strategic weapons and the possibility of arms races to come, p. http://disarmamentactivist.org/2007/04/07/next-generation-strategic-weapons-and-the-possibility-of-arms-races-to-come/]

Lichterman 2 Andrew Lichterman, Program Director and Research Analyst for Western States Legal Foundation, Fall 2002. [Western States Legal Foundation Information Bulletin, The Military Space Plane, Conventional ICBM’s, and the Common Aero Vehicle: Overlooked Threats of Weapons Delivered Through or From Space]

Andreasen 6 Steven Andreasen, political analyst and former Director of Defense Policy and Arms Control on the US National Security Council, July/August 2006. [Arms Control Today, Off Target? The Bush Administration's Plan to Arm Long-Range Ballistic Missiles with Conventional Warheads, p. http://www.armscontrol.org/print/2076]

Bolkcom 6 Christopher Bolkcom, analayst on nuclear issues at Congressional Research Service, former researcher at the Federation of American Scientists, Shirley A. Kan, analyst of foreign affairs and national defense at the CRS, and Amy F. Woolf, nuclear specialist at the CRS, 8-11-2006. [CRS Report for Congress, U.S. Conventional Forces and Nuclear Deterrence A China Case Study, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL33607.pdf]

Andreasen 6 Steven Andreasen, political analyst and former Director of Defense Policy and Arms Control on the US National Security Council, July/August 2006. [Arms Control Today, Off Target? The Bush Administration's Plan to Arm Long-Range Ballistic Missiles with Conventional Warheads, p. http://www.armscontrol.org/print/2076]

Davis and Dodd 6 Ian Davis, Ph.D., independent human security and arms control consultant, former executive director of the British American Security Information Council, Robin Dodd, researcher at BASIC, June 2006. [BASIC Paper No. 51, US ‘Prompt Global Strike’ Capability: A New Destabilising Sub-State Deterrent in the Making? www.basicint.org/pubs/Papers/BP51.pdf]

Hess 6 Pamela Hess, staff writer, 10-6-2006. [UPI, Analysis: Expert warns off 'global strike', p. ln]

Postol 6 Theodore A. Postol, Professor of Science, Technology, and National Security Policy @ MIT, 10/5-10/6, 2006. [Paper presented before congressional staff at a meeting of the Center for Science, Technology, and Security Policy “Conventional Missiles and Early Warning Systems: The Proposed D-5 Trident Conversion and the impact on Russia’s Early Warning System,” http://cstsp.aaas.org/files/GlobalStrikeSystemOverviewBriefing_October5-6,2006_October3,2006-01.pdf ]

Miasnikov 9 Yevgeniy Miasnikov, Senior Research Scientist at the Moscow Centre for Arms Control, 2009. [Research paper commissioned by the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, “Long Range Precision-Guided Conventional Weapons: Implications for Strategic Balance, Arms, Control, and Non-Proliferation]

Geron and Boyars 7 Michael Gerson, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Jacob Boyars, intern at the Center for Strategic Studies Center for Naval Analyses, 9-18-2007. [CAN, “The Future of U.S. Deterrence: Constructing Effective Strategies to Deter States and Non-State Actors”, p. http://www.cna.org/documents/D0017171.A2.pdf]