Fleets fade away with Pentagon budget cuts Fleets fade away with budget By Rowan Scarborough– The Washington Times Sunday, February 5, 2012 The F-16 Falcon has been a mainstay in the U.S. Air Force arsenal, but the jet fighter and other types of tactical aircraft are being retired by the service for reasons of age
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) To the rear, march! Thomas Donnelly Thomas Donnelly is director of the Center for Defense Studies at the American Enterprise Institute January 30, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 19 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Nations, like markets, look at both fundamentals and trends. The world’s developed and developing democracies, (also known
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JANUARY 30, 2012 There may be political value in detailing how our special forces hunted bin Laden, but doing so threatens troop safety and future missions. By LEIF BABIN Mr. Babin is a former Navy SEAL officer who served three tours in Iraq, earning a Silver Star, two Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart. He
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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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JANUARY 28, 2012 ‘Lawfare’ Loses Big The ACLU loses its nasty suit against former defense officials. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: But the lawyers suing for Padilla aren’t interested in justice. They’re practicing “lawfare,” which is an effort to undermine the war on terror by making U.S. officials afraid to pursue it for fear of personal
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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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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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