Center for Defense Information

Center for Defense Information
1779 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Suite 615
Washington, DC 20036-2109
202-332-0600
202-462-4559 fax

The Center for Defense Information is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization seeking to identify and promote changes in U.S. and other nations' security policies that increase real international security, through producing independent, non-ideological evaluations of policy alternatives.

Winslow T. Wheeler, Director, Straus Military Reform Project

Areas of expertise: Military/institutional reform; role of Congress; defense planning; defense budget analysis, strategic weapons

From 1971 to 2002, Winslow Wheeler was a staffer and national defense analyst for four U.S. senators (Jacob K. Javits, Nancy L. Kassebaum, David Pryor, and Pete V. Domenici) and the General Accounting Office. Wheeler was also active in the Congressional Military Reform Caucus, which included over 100 Democratic and Republican members of Congress in the mid 1980s. At GAO, he directed and wrote comprehensive evaluations of the US strategic triad and the air campaign of Operation Desert Storm. Wheeler resigned his position with Senator Pete V. Domenici and the Senate Budget Committee after he published a controversial essay, Mr. Smith Is Dead, which criticized Congress' handling of defense budgets after 9-11. Wheeler is now expanding on his essay in a book on Congress and the politics of defense.