As the U.S. military grappled with budget cuts over the past year, one thing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta made clear was the Pentagon must avoid reductions in training and maintenance…
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Report Challenges Key Pentagon Spending Assumption
November 27, 2012 • In the News • Original: Reuters
Study: Keep Investing in Spec Ops, Cyber
November 27, 2012 • In the News • Original: Defense News
The Pentagon should continue to invest in special operations forces, offensive and defensive cyber capabilities, new manned and unmanned long-range strike aircraft and undersea vessels even as defense spending declines…
Budget War Game Gives Players Freedom to Make ‘Tough Choices’
November 27, 2012 • In the News • Original: National Defense Magazine
The Pentagon has spent much of the past decade figuring out how to spend more each year, rather than less. Military and civilian leaders, as former Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm….
Tax Fight Freezes Defense Industry out of Negotiations over ‘Fiscal Cliff’
November 20, 2012 • In the News • Original: the Hill
The defense industry has $500 billion in pending Pentagon cuts at stake in the “fiscal cliff” talks, yet it finds itself largely sidelined in the heated debate. Defense firms desperately…
On Defense, Congress Needs to Change Its Ways
November 20, 2012 • In the News • Original: Washington Post
Discussion of the “fiscal cliff” since the presidential election has focused so far on the type and amount of tax increases that congressional Republicans might accept and the changes in…