Monthly Archives: March 2010
In a Wednesday morning Senate Armed Services Subcommittee hearing on countering violent extremism, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Combating Terror Garry Reid told Senators, “the best thing you [Congress] could for us would be to expand the resources and the capacity within the diplomatic side of the house and the State [...]
“Ex-generals urge Congress to fund Obama int’l affairs budget” By Laura Rozen Politico March 10, 2010 Joining recent calls by Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen to expand U.S. civilian capacities to reduce dependence on the military, some 50 former three and four star generals and [...]
The U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (USGC) released a letter today signed by 48 retired four- and three-star generals and flag officers calling on Congress to fully fund the President’s International Affairs Budget request. The military leaders underscore that the International Affairs Budget is “a fundamental pillar of U.S. national security and foreign policy” and state [...]
USGLC is getting media attention for its letter to Congress from military leaders urging a boost in the International Affairs Budget. Among the most influential reporters in D.C., Laura Rozen of Politico writes that “[j]oining recent calls by Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen to expand [...]
General Michael W. Hagee, USMC (Ret.) Admiral James M. Loy, USGC (Ret.) Over 50 retired four- and three-star generals and flag officers are calling on Congress to fully fund President Obama’s $58.5 billion International Affairs Budget request. In a letter signed by 50 members of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition’s (USGLC) National Security Advisory Council [...]
Nearly 50 retired four- and three-star generals and flag officers called on Congress today to fully fund the President’s International Affairs Budget request in a letter released by the USGLC’s National Security Advisory Council.
Bill Gates, Co-Chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, will be on Capitol Hill Wednesday discussing “new directions in global health” before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. His Foundation’s Living Proof Project highlights the many successes of U.S.-funded global health initiatives. Testifying after Gates will be USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah and Dr. Eric P. [...]
The House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight held a hearing on March 4th entitled “Restoring America’s Reputation in the World: Why it Matters.” Chairman Russ Carnahan (D-MO) noted that international opinion of the United States and its foreign policies were at an all-time low in 2007, but, according to a [...]
Is Africa progressing? That’s the controversial assertion of two U.S. economists, who write that in the 10 years before the credit crunch began, poverty rates fell rapidly and inequality declined right across the continent. Xavier Sala-i-Martin and Maxim Pinkovskiy have published an article through America’s National Bureau of Economic Research that contradicts the views of [...]
Coinciding with International Women’s Day, USGLC Advisers Ann Lewis and Susan Molinari penned an op-ed on women and security in Politico today. “Smart development is in America’s self-interest,” they write. “As Congress begins debate on the president’s budget request, they would do well to consider just how much funding the International Affairs budget matters to [...]
