Yearly Archives: 2011

After a traumatic attack on US soil, lawmakers were quick to authorize nearly unlimited funds for the Pentagon to rout terrorists who killed thousands of American citizens – and to…

Ten years after the United States embarked on a war against terrorism in the rubble of the September 11 attacks, the country finds itself financially exhausted and facing hard strategic…

Planners of the defense budget face an unprecedented challenge in responding to new threats in a post-9/11 era at the same time resources are diminishing, experts said Thursday. The analysts…

U.S. military procurement coffers were flush with cash in the post-9/11 decade, but the Pentagon missed an opportunity to replace the hardware still being used in the wars spawned by…

The Senate’s spending committee today reduced by $26 billion the pending fiscal 2012 defense budget — the first installment of as much as $400 billion in cuts the Pentagon faces…