On the chopping block: a perfectly good aircraft carrier, a handful of aging cruisers, four of the Navy’s 14 ballistic-missile submarines and another 5,000 sailors beyond expected cuts over the…
Monthly Archives: October, 2011
U.S. Ground Forces Face Biggest Cut
October 10, 2011 • In the News • Original: Defense News
Upcoming spending cuts are likely to end the custom of splitting DoD’s budget pie evenly among the Air Force, Navy and Army — and it’s the ground force that’s most…
Corporate Downsizing Comes To The Pentagon
October 8, 2011 • In the News • Original: Foreign Policy Magazine
/…/Just like General Motors and many other previously labor-intensive businesses, the Pentagon has a labor cost problem. And just like Corporate America, the solution to the Pentagon’s labor cost problem…
Republican Hawks Use Sharp Rhetoric to Fight Deeper Pentagon Budget Cuts
October 2, 2011 • In the News • Original: the Hill
Republican lawmakers are using increasingly sharp rhetoric to argue against additional cuts to defense spending, warning the military will cede its technical edge, manufacturing will further erode and conscription will…