JANUARY 31, 2012 Admiral Obama A diminished Navy can’t meet its multiple global missions. President Obama plans to cut the Pentagon budget by half a trillion dollars or more in the next decade. He also wants the military to take on new missions, principally for the Navy to lead an American strategic “pivot” to the […]
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Nations that choose butter over guns atrophy and die By Victor Davis Hanson– The Washington Times Wednesday, January 11, 2012 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Unfortunately, defense cuts do not occur in isolation. They feed a syndrome best typified by an insolvent and largely defenseless, socialist Europe. The more prosperous societies cut their defenses to expand
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– The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation – http://blog.heritage.org – Morning Bell: A Slashed and Burned Military Posted By Mike Brownfield On January 27, 2012 @ 9:35 am In Protect America | 79 Comments The future is not bright for the U.S. military. Yesterday, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta gave America a
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JANUARY 24, 2012, 7:19 P.M. ET Yes, we spent more after 9/11—but in ways that impeded modernization. By MACKENZIE EAGLEN On Thursday, the Pentagon will begin detailing its plans to cut $500 billion from the military’s budget over the next decade. The reason, insists President Barack Obama, is that “since 9/11, our defense budget grew
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Washington Post Fact checking the 2012 State of the Union speech Glenn Kessler 01/25/2012 A State of the Union address is often difficult to fact check, no matter who is president. The speech is a product of many hands and is carefully vetted, so major errors of fact are so relatively rare that they sometimes
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By Howard P. “Buck” McKeon, Published: January 12 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: I have no qualms about critiquing our president’s claim that massive defense cuts somehow bring balance to our national programs. Defense counts for less than 20 percent of the federal budget but totals more than 50 percent of our deficit-reduction efforts, while domestic spending
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JANUARY 10, 2012 Spending less on defense means squandering the money elsewhere. By BRET STEPHENS EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Or consider Mr. Obama’s favorite subject, nuclear proliferation. In April 2009, he gave a speech in Prague dreaming of a nuclear-free world. Almost immediately, North Korea tested a weapon, Pakistan expanded its arsenal, Iran moved ahead
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– The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation – http://blog.heritage.org – Chart of the Week: Defense Spending Throughout U.S. History Posted By Rob Bluey On January 8, 2012 President Obama visited the Pentagon on Thursday to outline his plan for gutting our nation’s military [1]. Obama’s vision makes America more vulnerable to
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November 21, 2011 By John Griffing Under the guise of addressing the debt crisis, President Obama is leaving America exposed to multi-pronged attack by myriad hostile powers. Necessities like national defense are being sacrificed on the altar of handouts to constituents. Arguably secondary entitlement programs have supplanted the primary necessity of a strong national defense
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NOVEMBER 22, 2011 Why the Super Committee Failed Democrats were unwilling to agree to anything less than $1 trillion in tax hikes, and unwilling to offer meaningful reforms for health-care entitlement spending. By JEB HENSARLING All now know that the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction has failed to reach an agreement. While there will
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