Miriam Pemberton is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, writing and speaking on demilitarization issues for its Foreign Policy In Focus project. She has recently published a report, Military vs Climate Security: Mapping the Shift from the Bush Years to the Obama Era a follow-up to her other publication, The Budgets Compared: Military vs. Climate Security.
by Miriam Pemberton
From the crowd that wants to shrink government because this will create jobs, we are now hearing that we can't shrink the Pentagon because that would cost jobs. Here are the main points of their case, rebutted one by one.
