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…
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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…
White House Cuts $25 Billion More From Defense to Fund VA
September 30, 2011 • In the News • Original: Bloomberg
The White House has directed the Pentagon to reduce its 10-year spending plan by another $25 billion, on top of the roughly $450 billion it’s already planning to cut, according…
How Bad Would Sequestration Be For Defense?
September 29, 2011 • In the News • Original: National Journal
Just how bad would sequestration be for the Pentagon? No one argues that the roughly $500 billion across-the-board defense cut that would be triggered if the super committee fails to…