Security Assistance Monitor has recently uploaded data from the Defense Department’s (DOD) Fiscal Year 2011 and 2012 Section 1209 reports, which detail DOD’s spending on foreign assistance related programs around the world. Not all DOD assistance programs are tracked in the 1209 report, and some missing programs include a handful of smaller military and police training programs, the DOD’s Iraq and Afghanistan programs, and the...
We recently obtained reports from the Defense Department that detail the department’s allocations and spending on foreign-assistance related programs in Latin America in 2011 and 2012. The programs included in the report were Section 1033 Counter-Drug Assistance, ...
On Tuesday March 4, the Department of State released the Congressional Budget Justification for the administration’s fiscal year 2015 budget request. The report details how a requested base budget of $40.3 billion and an additional $5.9 billion in Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) funds would be spent on the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, if approved. If the 2015 budget is approved at the $46.2 billion requested level, it will be approximately $500 million less than the 2014 budget for...
This week the head of Southcom said he can't stop 80 percent of drugs coming from Colombia, the U.S. government made increasingly critical statements against Venezuela's government and El Salvador almost got a new president. Here's a roundup of these stories and other highlights from around the region over the past week.
- On Thursday, the ...
The United States continues to engage in the Syrian conflict by training a new round of Iraqi special operations forces in Jordan, while conducting high-level meetings throughout the region on bilateral and regional military cooperation. Below is a roundup of some of the top articles and news highlights from around the Middle East and North Africa over the last week:
U.S. Policy:
- In a continuation of previous U.S. counterterrorism aid to Iraqi forces, a small number of U.S. special operations forces are in Jordan ...