Research organisation analysing military spending, policies and weapons systems. Supports smaller military forces appropriate to changing World situation. Produces a number of electronic products:
(a) Defense Monitor: themed journal, with a US bias
(b) Peacekeeping citation list: abstracting books, journal/newspaper articles and government publications, focusing on UN and USA activities.
(c) Arms Trade Citations: lists books, journal/newspaper articles on international arms trade.
(d) WWW/gopher server: excellent service, includes text of latest Defence Monitor, an Arms Trade Data Base (includes a keyword search, leading to full text materials from including CDI reports, UN Register of Conventional Arms, USA CRS report), country situation statistics (military expenditures, numbers of personnel, equipment, overview), section on landmines, information on CDI and extensive links to other military sources. [Data being transferred from gopher, may currently have different set of CDI resources]