
Ciro Scotti
Ciro Scotti, a journalist, editor and media strategist, is a contributing editor to The Fiscal Times. Earlier, he was Deputy Editor, The Americas, at Reuters and Managing Editor at Bloomberg Businessweek.
Recent Stories By Ciro Scotti:
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          How the US Military Still Celebrates Confederate HeroesAugust 16, 2017The national upheaval over the bloody protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, and President Donald Trump’s comments on the violence there have sparked a new examination of why heroes of the... 
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          The Mysterious Threat to Pilots That the Pentagon Can’t SolveAugust 11, 2017Crew members in the cockpits of Navy F/A-18 Hornets and Super Hornets suffered oxygen deprivation almost 300 times over a period of more than five years. The number keeps climbing, and the Navy doesn... 
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          Does the Army’s $580 Million Handgun Have a Fatal Flaw?August 11, 2017Last January, the Army made a $580 million decision: It would replace its longstanding sidearm, the M9 Beretta, with a new modular handgun made by the U.S. arm of the German-controlled gunsmith Sig... 
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          Why the Price of the F-35 Keeps SoaringAugust 9, 2017The General Accounting Office calls the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter “the most expensive and ambitious” weapons project ever undertaken, with acquisition costs of about $400 billion and operating costs... 
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          Anyone With $12 and a 3-D Printer Can Make an Untraceable GunJuly 21, 2017From now on, you may want to consider anyone with internet access and a 3-D printer armed and dangerous. A new report from the non-profit research organization the Rand Corporation says sales of... 
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          The Billion-Dollar Job of Raising Mosul From the RubbleJuly 19, 2017A little more than three years ago, the ancient city of Mosul – Iraq’s second-largest -- was a strategically important northern metropolis on the Tigris, home to a diverse population of almost 2... 
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          China’s New Killer Drone Rivals the US Reaper — at Half the PriceJuly 18, 2017The deadly game of one-upmanship in military drones just got more lethal as China unveiled a rival to America’s powerful MQ-9 Reaper and said it would commercially produce the UAV for sale to other... 
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          Does the Navy Really Need an $18 Billion-a-Year, 355-Vessel Program? July 17, 2017The Navy spends at least $18 billion a year building ships, but a portion of that money goes to fixing deficiencies after delivery even after the vessels are declared operational, according to a new... 
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          F-35 Total Costs Climb Past $1.5 Trillion — How High Will They Go?July 13, 2017Will it ever be clear what the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter – the most expensive weapons system in history – has cost American taxpayers? On Monday, a Pentagon report to Congress predicted that the... 
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          The Navy’s Argument for Building Another $500 Million Combat Ship Doesn’t Hold WaterJuly 12, 2017Under pressure from the White House, the Navy recently agreed to add a second Littoral Combat Ship to its latest budget despite grave concerns about the capabilities of the vessel. The stated reason... 
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          The Navy’s New Plan to Spend Billions on a Next-Generation Small Combat ShipJuly 11, 2017Last April, as the Navy was hurrying to replace its problematic Littoral Combat Ship program with a $9 billion plan to build 12 frigates, the General Accounting Office said in essence, “Whoa captain... 
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          4 Reasons US Arms Sales Could Hit an All-Time High This YearJuly 7, 2017U.S. weapon sales to foreign nations this fiscal year are on track to equal or blow past the $68.6 billion record set in 2012. In a research note published on Wednesday, Roman Schweizer, a managing... 
 
              