Gordon Adams
List of Gordon Adams articles
Great Expectations
Are the Pentagon budget planners encouraging bad behavior?
Echoes of 1914
A strange, dangerous, and oddly familiar era -- of declining American power, global rebalancing, and profound inequality -- is upon us.
The Little Budget Deal is a Big Deal
What's good for the country is even better for the Pentagon -- stability.
Six Ways to Manage the Five-Sided Building
How the Pentagon can get in shape now for the coming budget cuts.
Rebalancing the World Stage
Why America can no longer be both an actor and director.
Facing Reality at the Pentagon
Washington is clearly insane. But have military planners finally come to grips with the sequester?
Absurdistan, D.C.
How Republicans are threatening to turn Washington into a failed state.
Shots Fired
The battles over a drawdown at the Pentagon may have begun, but senior leadership is still prioritizing politics over hard budget realities.
Get Real
The House proposal to keep defense spending down is a big deal -- and a reality check for the Pentagon.
Bad Leftovers
Why there's little hope for a solution to Congress's budget woes.
This Is Not a Horror Story
Why you shouldn't worry about the Pentagon cutting personnel.
Intervention on the Cheap
Lawmakers trying to tie Syria to sequestration don't seem to realize we've already paid for this war.
Return of the Precipice
Raising the curtain on this fall's fight over the defense budget.
The Shoots of Hope Spring Eternal
But when it comes to the federal budget, are they weeds?
The Pentagon’s Stages of Budget Grief
There's been denial and anger, and now bargaining with the SCMR. When do we get to acceptance?
