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Think Tanks Call For Massive Pentagon Personnel Cuts Under BCA
Four D.C. think tanks took a crack at cutting the Pentagon’s budget under sequestration. CSBA Image Four D.C. think tanks took a crack at balancing the Department of Defense’s budget if the Pentagon...
View ArticleDocument: Think Tanks Call for Personnel and Base Reforms
The following is a Monday open letter to Pentagon leaders and Congress from a bi-partisan group representing ten D.C. think tanks that focus on national security issues. The groups are calling for...
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CNO: Navy Will Need More Funds if Syria Standoff Extends into October
Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Jonathan Greenert speaks at the American Enterprise Institute on Sept.5, 2013. US Navy Photo If the ongoing standoff between Syria and U.S. navy ships extends into...
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Document: Joint Think Tank Report on Future Defense Spending
Four D.C. think tanks took a crack at cutting the Pentagon’s budget under sequestration. CSBA Image The following is from the four way defense budget game played by the American Enterprise Institute,...
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Panel: China Expanding Submarine Capabilities
People’s Liberation Army Navy Type-92 submarine. PLAN Photo China is constantly improving underwater operations and investments in platforms, sensors, and even oceanographic research, said Thomas...
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HASC’s Thornberry on Sequestration, Military Budgets and Pentagon Oversight
Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) The new chairman of the House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday stressed the need for Congress and the administration to work together to put an end to the automatic...
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Think Tank Panel Tells House U.S. Military Faces More Challenges, Suggests...
When a quartet of defense budget experts was asked how it would spend the Pentagon’s money now versus last year, they all recognized that “creeping aggression” in Eastern Europe, across the Middle...
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AEI Panel: U.S. Should Do More to Quell Sectarian Divide in Iraq
Iraqi army soldiers from 4th Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 5th Division stand outside an Iraqi army compound in Buhriz, Iraq, Jan. 31, 2007. US Air Force Photo “No one is advocating re-invading Iraq” or...
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Panel: Russia Long Term Economic, Political Outlook is Bleak
Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2013. Russia is in a period of slow deterioration — economically and politically — with a regime that has neither a mechanism for the transfer of power nor an agenda...
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Panel Tells HASC Fight Against ISIS Will be Long, Could Require Larger U.S....
An image grab taken from a propaganda video uploaded on June 11, 2014 of ISIS. Photo via AFPWhile putting combat brigades into the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS or ISIL) is...
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Sen. Gardner: Administration Unwilling to ‘Name Names’ in Cyber Security...
Sen. Corey Gardner (R-Colo.) “The administration will not name names” when it comes to serious breaches of cybersecurity in the government’s own data files and the silence raises “a significant...
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Panel: U.S. Needs to Rethink Strategy to Defeat Radical Islam
ISIS fighters in Iraq. Reuters Photo Fourteen years after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center the U.S. still has “no comprehensive strategy to defeat radical...
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House Foreign Affairs Chair Royce Critical of U.S. Policy Toward Iran
Rep. Ed Royce in 2013. The perception among American Middle Eastern allies and partners is that “we have tilted to Iran” since concluding the nuclear agreement and are now regularly showing a failure...
View ArticleCotton Calls for a $26B Uptick in Planned Defense Supplemental
A member of the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence Committee is calling for a $26 billion addition to this year’s emergency defense spending bill to rebuild readiness — starting with increased...
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CENTCOM Commander: U.S. ‘Completely Focused’ on Responsible Afghanistan...
A U.S. Marine with Task Force Southwest (TFSW) provides security for Marine advisors during an advising mission with 1st Brigade, Afghan National Army (ANA) 215th Corps as the Afghan National Defense...
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