It's OK, We Can Safely Include Defense...
The Republican vote to roll spending back to FY 2008 levels nicely left the defense budget off the table. Too bad; it's OK, even necessary to include defense in the overall effort, despite what Robert...
View ArticleSearching for the Elusive $78 billion: Are the Defense "Cuts" Real
Ever since Secretary Gates announced (www.defense.gov/transcripts/transcript.aspx) his "cuts" in the defense budget - $78 billion over the next six years - people have been confused. Last summer he...
View ArticleThe Defense Budget: Time to End the Mantra of Fear
(originally posted on The Will and the Wallet For thirty-five years, the Egyptian people believed the myth and lived in fear, fear of the security forces and fear of the chaos and instability that...
View ArticleEven Easier: Obama's Proposed Defense Cuts Revisited
Updating my entry last Friday, we have recalculated the route to get to President Obama's proposed security spending reductions of $400 billion over twelve, yes, count them, twelve years. Not a great...
View ArticleThe Panetta Challenge at DOD
Leon Panetta may be glowing with the success in Abbottabad, but he will have to turn to the challenge of the defense budget in short order. The House Armed Services Committee looks like it will push...
View ArticleWaste, Fraud, and Abuse: How the Debt Negotiators are Fudging on the Defense...
Rumor has it that the current deficit/debt discussions between the White House and the Republican House leadership may include $1 trillion in defense savings over the next ten years. If this were...
View ArticleDefense and the Debt: Discipline is Good; Sequesters are Not
Secretary Panetta was on point yesterday when he warned against a sequester of defense funding beyond the first tranche of budget disciplne in the new debt agreement. But the point he was making is...
View ArticleDefense, Jobs,and the Making of Hypocrites
Defense budgets go up and down. They have ever since the end of the Second World War. We are in a build down today, one that is likely to continue for the next decade, reardless of what the Super...
View ArticleMcKeon's "Unique Defense Industry"
We are in the midst of a full-throated attack by our own Department of Defense and its supporters in the Congress, who are saying anything they can to scare the Congress into sparing defense budgets...
View ArticleContinuing Resolution For DOD 2013 Is Even More Likely Because Of Obama...
Not only are the Obama administration’s $450 billion-over-10-years military spending cuts not likely to be enacted before the 2012 election, but no significant deficit reductions of any kind should be...
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