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Charles Knight is co-director of the Project on Defense Alternatives. He also serves as the President of the Commonwealth Institute which he helped found in 1987. In 1989 he founded the Ground Force Alternatives Project at the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies, where he was a Research Fellow. As a follow-on to that project, in 1991 he co-founded the Project on Defense Alternatives.
Mr Knight also edits the Defense Strategy Review Webpage. He has made numerous presentations on peace and security issues at governmental and non-governmental institutions, and during the 1994-1996 period had the honor to consult on stability-oriented security options for southern Africa with the African National Congress and South African Ministry of Defense.
Mr Knight also serves on the board of directors of the Conservation Services Group and is a partner at the Women's Theological Center, Boston.
Formerly Mr Knight was a fellow at the Institute for Peace and International Security in Cambridge, Massachusetts; publisher of Working Papers magazine; administrator of the Pequod Counseling Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a research associate at the Cambridge Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 8, 2009 It's Time To Scrutinize The Pentagon Budget
Current circumstance demands that we enter into a broad and deep discussion about national strategic priorities, including security priorities. And this necessarily entails looking behind the curtain that shields the defense budget from more serious scrutiny.
SHARE Monday, January 5, 2009 Meeting the Enemy with Serious Talks of Extraordinary Scope
Thirty-seven years ago extraordinary diplomacy engaging an enemy state at the highest levels helped get the US out of a devastating war. Obama's diplomats need to be as daring and imaginative.
SHARE Saturday, December 13, 2008 Dust-up between the New York Times and the White House masks willful ignorance
a recent dust-up between the New York Times and the White House continues a narrative of blame for the Iraq war and masks the blind eye the mainstream media turned to the (lack of)evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq prior to the war. Public recriminations don't hold with the evidence from history.