Carl Conetta
Template:TOCnestleft Carl Conetta is co-director, Project on Defense Alternatives, Commonwealth Institute, Cambridge, MA.
Since 1991, Mr. Conetta has been co-director of the Project on Defense Alternatives (PDA) at the Commonwealth Institute.
While at PDA, Mr. Conetta has been the author of more than 50 reports and articles on threat assessment, military operations, and defense strategy, transformation, and budgeting. And he has contributed to 12 edited volumes on defense issues. Mr. Conetta has served as a consulting analyst for the Council on Foreign Relations, US House Armed Services Committee, South African Ministry of Defense, and for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Conetta has been published in Defense News, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, NOD and Conversion Journal, the Boston Review, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the American Sentinel, Security Dialogue, and Hawk, the journal of the Royal Air Force Staff College of the United Kingdom. Mr. Conetta has also made presentations at the Pentagon, US State Department, US House Armed Services Committee, Army War College, National Defense University, UNIDIR, and other governmental and nongovernmental institutions in the United States and abroad. He is a frequent expert commentator on radio and TV. He edits the Chinese Military Power and Revolution in Military Affairs Webpages.[1]
Before joining PDA, he was a fellow at the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies and served as editor of the IDDS journal, Defense and Disarmament News, and associate editor of the Arms Control Reporter. [2]
Prior to 1986, Mr. Conetta was an editor for four years at South End Press and taught for two years at the University of Connecticut.[3]
Revolutionary Student Brigade
Carl Conetta was chairman of the Revolutionary Student Brigade, at the University of Connecticut in 1974.[4].
He was still a member in 1978.[5]
In 1977 Carl Conetta of the Revolutionary Student Brigade told the Connecticut Daily Campus. Wednesday, October 5, 1977:
- Yes, we are revolutionary communists, "revolutionary" because we want to put an end to things like unemployment, poverty, discrimination, war and economic crisis once and for all; "communist" because we want to build a society where the masses of working people can take control of the society that they built in common and make it serve their common needs rather than the needs of a handful of wealthy parasites.[6]
South End Press
Workers at South End Press included Carl Conetta, Michael Albert, Todd Jailer, Mary Lea, Cynthia Peters, Lydia Sargent, John Schall, Pat Walker.[7]
Sustainable Defense Task Force
Paul Kawika Martin June 11 2010.
The Sustainable Defense Task Force with Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA)
Laicie Heeley with Charles Knight, Carl Conetta, William Hartung, Heather Hurlburt, Christopher Preble, Christopher Hellman, Laura Peterson.
The Sustainable Defense Task Force was formed in response to a request from Representative Barney Frank (D-MA), working in cooperation with Representative Walter B. Jones (R-NC), Representative Ron Paul (R-TX), and Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), to explore possible defense budget contributions to deficit reduction efforts that would not compromise the essential security of the United States.
The Sustainable Defense Task Force was formed in response to a request from Representative Barney Frank (D-MA), working in cooperation with Representative Walter B. Jones (R-NC), Representative Ron Paul (R-TX), and Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), to explore possible defense budget contributions to deficit reduction efforts that would not compromise the essential security of the United States.
The Project on Defense Alternatives coordinated the work of the Task Force. Carl Conetta drafted the main body of the Task Force report in ongoing consultation with Task Force members who developed or digested proposals from the diverse sources cited in the report. A sub-committee of the Task Force reviewed the final draft before publication.
Members were;
- Carl Conetta, Project on Defense Alternatives
- Benjamin H. Friedman, Cato Institute
- William D Hartung, New America Foundation
- Christopher Hellman, National Priorities Project
- Heather Hurlburt, National Security Network
- Charles Knight, Project on Defense Alternatives
- Lawrence J. Korb, Center for American Progress
- Paul Kawika Martin, Peace Action
- Laicie Olson, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
- Miriam Pemberton, Institute for Policy Studies
- Laura Peterson, Taxpayers for Common Sense
- Prasannan Parthasarathi, Boston College
- Christopher Preble, Cato Institute
- Winslow Wheeler, Center for Defense Information
References
- ↑ PDA staff page, accessed Dec 4, 2012
- ↑ Sustainable Defense Task force , report June 2010
- ↑ PDA staff page, accessed Dec 4, 2012
- ↑ [file:///C:/Users/Trevor/Downloads/1974-11-11%20(1).pdfConnecticut Daily Campus, Volume 78, Number 46,y, November 11, 1974 Page 3 ]
- ↑ [file:///C:/Users/Trevor%20Loudon/Downloads/1978-10-10.pdf]
- ↑ [file:///C:/Users/Trevor%20Loudon/Downloads/1977-10-05-18.pdf]
- ↑ [The Romance of American Psychology: Political Culture in the Age of Experts By Ellen Herman xii Acknowledgements]