Tag Archives: Defense Budget Cuts

Military spending is not right way to boost America’s economic security

Posted on May 16, 2013 by peace

By Michael Shank, Elizabeth Kucinich, Fox News
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That Washington is holding defense cuts responsible for slow economic growth is a specious argument at best. War spending is unproductive and inflationary. Modern defense costs are capital intensive, not … Read More

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How to cut the Pentagon budget better than sequestration does

Posted on May 13, 2013 by peace

By Michael O’Hanlon, Washington Post Opinion
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Michael O’Hanlon is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author most recently of “Healing the Wounded Giant: Maintaining Military Preeminence While Cutting the Defense Budget.”

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With Pentagon facing cost-cutting pressure, how will Scott AFB fare?

Posted on May 13, 2013 by peace

By Mike Fitzgerald, BND.com
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SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE — This sprawling Air Force base has grown impressively in the decade since the terrorist attacks on 9/11 and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that followed. Scott’s workforce exploded, … Read More

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Congress Keeps Approving Military Spending For Projects The Pentagon Doesn’t Want

Posted on May 1, 2013 by peace

by David Francis, The Fiscal Times
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On Monday, noted deficit hawk Rep. Jim Jordan (Oh.) told the Associated Press that in the interest of national security, Congress needed to give the Pentagon $436 million to make … Read More

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Is War Good for the Economy?

Posted on April 30, 2013 by peace

by Michael S. Lofgren, The Huffington Post
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The 1960s comedy show Laugh-In included an occasional sketch in which co-host Dan Rowan played a comic general whose tag-line was “war is good for business!” In an ironic echo of … Read More

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Report: The Pentagon Must Cut Spending

Posted on April 15, 2013 by peace

by Ben Armbruster, Think Progress
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President Obama’s Pentagon budget proposal exceed’s last year’s request by $1 billion and CAP defense budget experts Lawrence Korb, Alex Rothman and Max Hoffman think the White House can do better. … Read More

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Irresponsibility In The US Department Of Defense – OpEd

Posted on April 9, 2013 by peace

by Ivan Eland, Eurasia Review
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Many Americans—except perhaps the very small percentage nowadays who actually have served in the American armed forces—have a stereotypic image of “military efficiency” and thus assume that any cuts to the … Read More

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Congress Saves Busted $380 Million Missile Program the Pentagon Won’t Buy

Posted on March 28, 2013 by peace

by Dana Leibelson, Mother Jones
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Conservatives are throwing a hissy fit about a few hundred thousand dollars spent on a scientific study about duck sex, but over at the Pentagon, Congress is spending $380 million on a missile program that has no … Read More

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Cutting the military

Posted on March 27, 2013 by peace

From the editors, The Christian Century
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The sequestration cuts that began to be implemented this month—$1.1 trillion in federal budget cuts, divided equally between defense and nondefense areas—are like an inkblot test. One group of observers … Read More

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F-35’s ability to evade budget cuts illustrates challenge of paring defense spending

Posted on March 9, 2013 by peace

By Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Washington Post
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At EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. — With an ear-ringing roar, the matte-gray fighter jet streaked down Runway 12 and sliced into a cloudless afternoon sky over the Florida Panhandle. To those … Read More

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