The Obama Administration came to a fork in the road this year on military spending: given the financial pressures facing the nation, it could have fundamentally set U.S. defense policy on a new path. Or it could have kept pretty much everything and just sucked it in as it tightened its belt. It has elected [...]
President Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta unveiled a new military strategy Thursday: the Pentagon of the future, they made clear, will be doing less with more. “Over the next 10 years, the growth in the defense budget will slow, but the fact of the matter is this: It will still grow, because we have [...]
In a rare moment of Congressional courage and sanity, the Senate has refused to fund the continuation of the F-22 fighter jet program. The Pentagon didn’t want the planes, whose best use would have been dogfights against the mighty Al-Qaeda air force. The President threatened a veto. But there were plenty of jobs at stake, [...]
