It seems everyone these days is clawing for a bigger piece of the Pentagon’s shrinking budget pie and special operations forces (SOF) are elbowing their way to the trough.
As it prepares for peacetime budget cuts, the Army must shrink. But Pentagon officials say reducing ground forces too much would leave the U.S. vulnerable to threats by such countries as North Korea or Iran. That means continuing to train with tanks, heavy weaponry and big formations–and, in the view of some military analysts, pulling the Army back to its roots and away from its promised future/…/
[L]et’s assume the United States insists on the more robust option of maintaining an actual no-fly zone over Syria. In Iraq, for example, the U.S. much of the air force intact on the ground opting to patrol the skies. How much would that cost?
As America’s top diplomat heads to Moscow, here are some tough questions he needs to answer about the Obama administration’s flawed nuclear treaty.
More military base closures and cuts are unavoidable. It’s just a matter of when, some observers say.
Army officials and manufacturers of combat vehicles have shifted into damage-control mode as the service’s flagship armor-modernization program comes under attack on multiple fronts.
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