Word: forsberg
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turbocharge regional arms races -- 66% of all U.S. exports go to Third World countries, among which are many fragile autocracies vulnerable to sudden power shifts. While funneling weapons abroad may delay the Pentagon's and its client industry's shrinkage, it perpetuates an addiction for military perquisites. As Randall Forsberg, director of the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts, puts it, "The forces and defense industries needed by the industrial countries are largely a function of regional arms buildups created by their own arms exports...
...feel that the information available to citizens is woefully inadequate," Forsberg said...
...Randall Forsberg, director of the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies, told the crowd that the documents left her with an impression of "an institutional bias toward worst-case scenarios...
Even with this unprecedented release of information, Forsberg charged that the agency continues to maintain secrecy "vastly in excess of national security needs...
...Forsberg agreed that "very substantial reductions" are necessary, since the end of the Cold War has eliminated the need for a whopping defense budget...