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Cost of Troops in Afghanistan is Rising. Salary a Tiny Fraction of Total Cost
Keeping one American service member in Afghanistan costs between $850,000 and $1.4 million a year, depending on who you ask. But one matter is clear, that cost is going up.
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Fight Over Defense Budget Has Familiar Ring
As Republicans and Democrats drew the battle lines last week for a yearlong, two-front war over the 2013 Defense budget, their attack plans looked familiar.
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DoD Avoids Termination Fees
The U.S. Defense Department carefully selected the programs it wants to cancel in fiscal 2013 to avoid termination fee negotiations that have plagued the Pentagon in prior years.
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Rumsfeld Redux
Pentagon’s budget, as advertised, touts a new strategic vision -- and a major reorientation of U.S. military forces. It anticipates a reduction in ground forces, a withdrawal of heavy Army units from Europe, and a shift in the military’s focus toward Asia. Above all, it favors agile (and, therefore, more easily deployable) special operations forces and the advanced air-and-space power that makes them so lethal/.../
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Pentagon’s Budget Not Yet Aligned With Obama’s Strategic Shift
The Obama Administration wants U.S. military focus to turn to the Pacific Ocean, but the Pentagon’s budget for fiscal year 2013 continues to support the status quo, according to analysts..
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Pentagon Not Planning For More Budget Cuts: Panetta
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told lawmakers on Thursday the Pentagon - a department that prides itself on being ready for everything from war to natural disaster - had no plan at all for dealing with the real threat of another $50 billion in budget cuts next year/.../