China announced new commercial flight routes along its southeastern coast today, as Taiwan warned the move created safety risks and threatened to “evict” any planes that strayed into its airspace.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told airmen here Tuesday that the nation’s nuclear mission is as important as ever and he voiced strong support for the Air Force’s plans to build a costly new long-range strike bomber.
A new Air Force stealthy, nuclear-weapon carrying bomber is critical for deterring enemies and a vital piece of the Pentagon’s pivot to the Pacific region, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Tuesday.
The Pentagon will request about $51 billion in war funding for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1, a 20 percent reduction from the $64 billion Congress approved this year and the least since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, officials and congressional aides said.
Several leading defense analysts have little confidence in the ability of Congress to produce another Murray-Ryan type budget deal that would partially stave off the effects of sequestration in the fiscal 2016 budget and beyond.
The Pentagon is planning another push to whittle down benefits for troops when it submits its 2016 budget to the White House in February over fierce opposition from military groups and some in Congress.
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