Pentagon

Thompson considers whether the CIA Director, former OMB chief and ex-House budget chairman can effectively wield the knife at the Pentagon:

Thompson deciphers Obama’s remarks on the Pentagon today in Northern Virginia:

“Well-connected special interests get these programs stuck in the budget, even though the Pentagon says we don’t need these particular weapons systems.”

Why the heck is our PAC giving these geezers on the defense appropriations subcommittees all this money

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Been posting here on Swampland on matters military for several months now. But it’s time now to march on over to Battleland, a military-related blog we’re setting up here in the Time web empire. So this is goodbye, at least in the sense that the Swamp will no longer be my normal base of operations. This blogging business comes with …