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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, 2017
The 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, 2017
Crew 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, 2017
Last 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, 2017
The 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, 2017
From 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, 2017
A 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, 2017
The 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, 2017
The 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, 2017
Will 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, 2017
Under 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, 2017
Last 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, 2017
U.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...