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The Way to Respond to China
The Pentagon should spare AirSea Battle from cuts. The military concept is America's best chance of ensuring peace and stability in the Western Pacific.
Sequestration Drama Could Delay 2013 Budget
Lawmakers could wait to void automatic Pentagon cuts that a debt-panel failure would trigger until well after the 2012 election, meaning the final 2013 military spending bill would be passed months late, says a plugged-in defense think tank.
U.S. Military Retirees Fret About Healthcare Fees
In an era of government belt-tightening, support appears to be growing for reining in the spiraling expense of military healthcare. In recommendations to the budget-cutting congressional "super committee" in September, President Barack Obama proposed two steps to offset rising military healthcare costs/.../
U.S. Military Chiefs Warn Budget Cuts Will Cancel Weapons
The chiefs of the U.S. military said they may have to end new weapons programs, close bases and cut civilian personnel as early as next year if Congress allows about $1 trillion in defense cuts during the next decade. The heads of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force, in testimony today before the House Armed Services Committee, joined Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in warning against the reductions.
The Terrorist Threat Beneath The Waves
The world's vast undersea energy infrastructure—oil and gas platforms, wellheads, pipelines and pumps—is now vulnerable to attack by cheap submarines and unmanned vehicles.
Planning? Don’t. Strategy? It Would Be Good To Have One
In the 1961 farewell speech where President Eisenhower made the "military-industrial complex" famous, Ike was going to add "Congressional" and struck it out minutes before he spoke, according to his military aide, Brig Gen Andrew Goodpaster. Goodpaster, who died in 2005, made the observation in a 1993 interview, according to a new report by Barry Watts and Todd Harrison of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, "Sustaining Critical Sectors of the US Defense Industrial Base".