The future trajectory of military spending may hinge on a battle within the Republican Party as longtime “defense hawks,” who support big Pentagon budgets, are at odds with tea party-inspired conservatives, who denounce taxes and federal spending across the board, GOP officials and political experts say.
/…/Marine Corps officials say the intense training done at this site in Chesapeake, Virginia is imperative to ensure the young Marines will be ready to respond to threats against U.S. facilities on a moment’s notice. But, they say, looming budget cuts may threaten the pace and realism of the training/…/
In an era of fiscal austerity, the investment decisions the U.S. military services make in the coming years must give others pause as they consider military competition or conflict with the United States. For the Air Force, this means preserving a highly credible capability to strike any targets anywhere on the globe while recapitalizing its aging inventory of combat aircraft.
“Prospective adversaries are developing and fielding, or have ready access to, military capabilities that will place U.S. forces operating from large, fixed forward bases, and in the littoral regions, at increasing risk,” the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments warned nearly a decade ago.
Democratic Rep. Adam Smith has a message for House Republicans: Stop talking about sequestration and start doing something about it.
On the same July day that Lockheed Martin Corp. chief executive Robert J. Stevens warned the House Armed Services Committee about the dangers of imminent across-the-board cuts in the Pentagon budget, he amplified the point in a letter to his workforce, warning that the company might let 10,000 employees go if the spending sequester takes effect/…/
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