The 10 Years’ War: Army Plans For Sequestration Cuts Through 2022
FORT LAUDERDALE: As automatic cuts to the 2013 budget look increasingly unavoidable, with the deadline for a Congressional deal only a week away, Army leaders are preparing fallback positions to defend...
View ArticleHagel’s Budget: Where’s The Beef In Reform Efforts, Weapons Buys?
In a town full of hot air, speeches are a dime a dozen. But money still talks. So let’s compare the new Secretary of Defense’s policy agenda to his first proposed budget. While Leon Panetta, his...
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Army Cuts 10 Combat Brigades — Or 11, Or 13 — And That’s Just The Beginning
PENTAGON: The Army’s widely publicized decision to cut 10 brigade combat teams from bases in eight states is just part of the story of the incredible shrinking armed services. To start with, it’s not...
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Fear, Changing Threats Drive SCMR, OpPlans Rewrite; Cut Readiness Dough,...
WASHINGTON: Turmoil, fear and a certain resolute grimness marked this week at the Pentagon and Capitol Hill. The military scrambled to cope with a range of new threats as Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel...
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Army Mulls Train & Advise Brigades: Gen. Milley
WASHINGTON: After 15 years of ad hoc solutions, the Army may build specialized battalions and brigades to train and advise foreign forces, the service’s chief of staff says. Gen. Mark Milley made clear...
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Trump Proffers Pentagon Specifics: $60B More To Boost Troops, Ships
When Donald Trump discussed his defense program in Philadelphia on Wednesday, the bluster and lunacy of the primary season were gone and he offered a scripted position paper that reflected (mostly)...
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Trump’s Promised Big Boost To DoD Evaporates In 2018 Budget
Campaign promises of a larger, more ready and fully modernized military have slammed into budget realities as the Trump administration’s fiscal 2018 budget for the Pentagon shows only modest growth...
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SecAF Wilson Takes Charge, Calls For 24% Boost In Squadrons
Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson laid down what will probably be the signature marker of her term as head of the Air Force, calling today at the Air Force Association conference for 74 new...
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2020 Budget: One Half Step Towards A Great Power Strategy
The Trump defense budget takes significant steps to move from a focus on regional conflicts and counter-insurgency to a focus on great power conflicts. But the Army, Navy Air Force and Marines clearly...
View ArticleObama’s Shift-to-Asia Budget Is a Hollow Shell Game
If you take the Administration’s word for it, the most recent defense budget represents a sober-minded and far-thinking strategic shift from the Middle East to Asia, creating a smaller, high-tech force...
View ArticleWhat a Difference Two Wars Make: No Battles Between Army, Guard And Reserve
WASHINGTON: As the Army has been handed its largest manpower cuts since the end of the first Persian Gulf War and its acquisition accounts are being squeezed dry trying to find room for programs like...
View ArticleCongress: Don’t Let Army Botch GCV, The Bradley Replacement
The Army’s senior leadership is determined to spend money on a new Ground Combat Vehicle (CV) to replace the aging Bradley Armored Fighting Vehicle. On the one hand, the admission that tracked mobile...
View ArticleTrust Us On Air Guard Cuts, Air Force Tells Congress
CAPITOL HILL: “Trust us.” That’s the last thing an irate Congress is ready to hear from the Air Force right now, but it’s the essence of what a three-star general told legislators today in a hearing on...
View ArticleAir Force Cuts Mean Service Is ‘Slowly Going Out of Business’
A year has passed since Congress passed and President Obama signed into law the Budget Control Act-the legislation mandating sequestration. Funding cuts that once seemed politically remote now loom...
View ArticleNavy Eyes ‘Golden Age’ In Seapower, Cuts Or Not
WASHINGTON: The Navy sails on the cusp a new “golden age” of seapower despite the fact that it will have one of the smallest fleets in recent history, a top service leader believes. While actual ship...
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