Theresa has over 24 years of experience working in graphic design. An award winning designer, she has been the recipient of a ...

CLACS extends a warm welcome to CLACS Cogut Visiting Professor Camilo Umaña. This Spring, Dr.Umaña will be teaching LACA ...

At this week’s China Chat we are joined by Grant Rhode for a discussion of his book, “Great Power Clashes along the Maritime Silk Road: Lessons from History to Shape Current Strategy.” Grant Rhode ...

Over the 20-year period of the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan, the U.S. Department of Defense paid various companies about $108 billion in contracts for work performed in the country, according to ...

Abhilash Medhi is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at Brown. His dissertation, set between 1840 and 1930, is a comparative spatial history of the Indo-Afghan borderlands and northeast ...

Over one half of the federal government’s total assets — buildings, aircraft, ships, vehicles, computers, and weapons — are used for national defense. In 2000, the Pentagon’s total assets were valued ...

Data from War Spending and Lost Opportunities (2019) by Heidi Peltier. Military spending by the federal government is often considered a vital support to employment and economic recovery. However, ...

Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University ...

Pentagon spending has totaled over $14 trillion since the start of the war in Afghanistan, with one-third to one-half of the total going to military contractors. A large portion of these contracts -- ...

Military spending makes up a dominant share of discretionary spending in the United States; military personnel make up the majority of U.S. government manpower; and military industry is a leading ...