Retired Admiral Gene R. La Rocque criticizes current U.S. military spending practices. Along with other retired military officers, La Rocque is a founder of the Center for Defense Information, CDI '' to analyze military matters, inform decision-makers and the public, and influence policy." CDI would become an alternative voice to what founders Admiral Gene La Rocque and Admiral Eugene Carroll believed was a Pentagon that was pushing self-serving data and analysis at decision-makers.