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An Inadequate Defense Budget? Compared to Whom? Compared to When? Many Republicans and numerous Democrats, especially on the House and Senate Armed Services Committees, have been characterizing the US defense budget as inadequate. They propose to release the Pentagon from the statutory spending caps set by the Budget Control Act of 2011 and its “sequestration,” …
In a two part series (titled “The Defense Budget Is Even Larger than You Think”) at Time magazine’s Battleland blog, I attempt to explain how high spending advocates and even the Department of Defense misuse and manipulate budget data to alter public and congressional perceptions of the contemporary size of DOD spending. The differences between …
This appears spot-on. I’ve had some one-on-one experience with OSD CAPE and they appear to be true non-patriots whose sole function is to cut dollars. They don’t seem to have a clue as to what the business of defending America is all about. They particularly oppose the concept of redundancy. In our huge bay, we …
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Invite your attention to attached think-piece from one of Washington think tanks. BLUF: Compendium of several approaches to screw over military Services, particularly Army and Marine Corps. Retirees, particularly working age, also targeted. AF, Navy, SOF, cyber favored. Several 3-stars and 4-stars signed on to this thing; not supportive of former colleagues IMHO. Peter Peterson Strikes …
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Romney’s defense budget is unrealistic By Winslow T. Wheeler, director, Straus Military Reform Project at the Project On Government Oversight – 11/01/12 10:45 AM ET Mitt Romney’s proposal to boost defense spending until it reaches “a floor of four percent of GDP [gross domestic product],” as he proclaims at his official website, is an insult …
The mantra is: Nothing is too good for our boys in combat; that means our equipment is expensive but also so effective it is the master of the battlefield. The cost is actually even more than you are told and the demonstrated performance is far less. There are many examples of this bad bargain (extremely …
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Those arguing for more defense spending lean heavily on misinformation to make their case; many of the critics–previously including myself–have relied on myth. The first of a two part series starts today in Time’s Battleland blog at http://nation.time.com/2012/10/01/adventures-in-babbleland-desperate-rhetoric-for-mundane-times/. Tomorrow’s piece probes further into the myth of American military superiority by looking into one of its prime …
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