Defense Budget Expert Gordon Adams Joins Capital Gains And Games

Andrew, Bruce, Ed, Pete, Troy, and I are exceptionally pleased and very happy to announce that Gordon Adams, former associate director of the Office of Management and Budget for national security and international affairs and one of the world's experts on the military, foreign affairs, homeland security, and intelligence budgets, has joined Capital Gains and Games. 

Gordon's first piece -- on why what Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is proposing may well be just the start of many more changes in Pentagon spending -- will be posted early on Tuesday.

For those of you who aren't familiar with Gordon and his excellent work, he currently is professor of international relations at American University and directs the program on Budgeting for Foreign Affairs and Defense at the Henry L. Stimson Center. Between February 1993 and December 1997, Gordon was associate director for national security and international affairs at the Office of Management and Budget where he oversaw all U.S. foreign affairs and national security budgeting and reviewed the budget plans of the Departments of Defense, State, and Treasury, as well as the Agency for International Development, the United States Information Agency, the intelligence community, and a number of smaller agencies. His latest book, Buying National Security: How America Plans and Pays for Its Global Role and Safety at Home, was published earlier this year.

Given the role that military spending will be playing in the coming deficit reduction debate, Gordon is arriving at CG&G not a minute too soon.