defense spending

7:00 PM, Jul 30, 2011 • By JOHN MCCORMACK

The Pentagon US Department of Defense building

8:22 PM, Jul 26, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

House Armed Services Committee chairman Buck McKeon has just sent around a memo to fellow Republicans on his committee, warning that Harry Reid's debt ceiling budget plan (which has been endorsed by President Obama) drastically and dangerously slashes defense spending.

1:49 PM, Jul 21, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARREN

Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.), the chair of the House Armed Services Committee, has released a statement on the Gang of Six deficit reduction proposal:

7:35 PM, Jul 18, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARREN

This afternoon Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) unveiled his own proposal to reduce to deficit. The plan, which purports to reduce the deficit by over $9 trillion over the next decade, does so by cutting discretionary spending and entitlements as well as by raising some revenue and counting savings on interest payments. Included among Coburn’s cuts is over $1 trillion from the Department of Defense budget.

“It’s specific, it’s detailed, it makes hard choices,” said Coburn in a press conference at the Capitol. “But it’s necessary.”

10:00 AM, Jul 8, 2011 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSON

We are $14.481 trillion (and counting) in debt. That’s up from $293 billion 50 years ago. It’s up from $9.986 trillion when President Obama was poised to take office at the end of 2008 (see Table S-9). Heck, it’s up $14 billion (more than the annual profits of Coca-Cola, Disney, or Conoco-Phillips) from just five days ago. How are we accruing such colossal sums of debt?

President Obama and many members of Congress seem to think that defense spending is largely to blame. Is it?

The president tries—and fails—to paint Republicans into a corner.

Jun 6, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 36 • By MICHAEL GOLDFARB

Not that long ago it looked like President Obama had Republicans right where he wanted them. As the debate over the 2011 budget played out on Capitol Hill, he threatened to veto the legislation if it cut one dollar more from defense spending than the budget request submitted by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.

It’s June 2025. Do you know where your fleet is?

Jun 6, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 36 • By BRYAN MCGRATH and MACKENZIE EAGLEN

The idea of a world without the benefit of preponderant American seapower may sound alarmist and farfetched. Unfortunately, those who follow military cutbacks and world affairs know that it isn’t. Indeed, the following scenario is all too plausible. . . .