Todd Harrison of the Center for Strategic Budgetary Assessments talks about the coming Defense Department budget cuts and how far ranging they are likely to be.
Monthly Archives: August, 2011
Deficit Reduction Deal and Pentagon Spending
August 7, 2011 • In the News • Original: This Week in Defense News with Vago Muradian
Report Calls on Pentagon to Prepare for Possible Debt-Limit Deal Spending Cuts
August 7, 2011 • In the News • Original: The Hill
Top Pentagon brass should craft plans so the Defense Department is ready if a so-called trigger in the debt-ceiling law is pulled, a move that would return the annual military…
The Long Battle Between Turkey’s Politicians and Generals Seems Over
August 6, 2011 • In the News • Original: Economist
For Turkey’s hard-line secularists it spelled a humiliating end to Ataturk’s republic. For their detractors it was an irreversible victory for democracy. Either way, the mass resignation of Turkey’s military…
Pentagon Steps Up Campaign Against More Defense Cuts
August 4, 2011 • In the News • Original: Chicago Tribune
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned against a “devastating” second round of defense cuts on Thursday as the Pentagon stepped up its campaign to convince Congress to look elsewhere for savings…
Defense Spending Could Take $900B Hit Over 10 Years
August 2, 2011 • In the News • Original: USA Today
Cuts to defense spending in the debt reduction bill could total nearly $1 trillion over 10 years — more than double what President Obama had proposed earlier this year —…