Lunacy, Bluster & Unanswered Questions: Trump On Defense

Lunacy, Bluster & Unanswered Questions: Trump On Defense
Lunacy, Bluster & Unanswered Questions: Trump On Defense

Sen. John McCain, a stalwart defense Republican, has come out against GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, saying he shares the concerns expressed today by fellow former GOP presidential Mitt Romney and 65 GOP national security leaders “about Mr. Trump’s uninformed and indeed dangerous statements on national security issues…. “At a time when our world has never…

Deficit Or Defense Hawks? GOP Signals Sequester Deal Possible

Deficit Or Defense Hawks? GOP Signals Sequester Deal Possible
Deficit Or Defense Hawks? GOP Signals Sequester Deal Possible

SAN DIEGO: How much Kentucky bourbon will it take for President Barack Obama and presumptive Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to come to an agreement of some kind on how to alleviate sequestration? A few drinks in the Oval Office? A bottle between them up in McConnell’s Capitol eyrie? And what about those new Republicans…

Stunned By Cantor’s Loss, HASC Leaders Will Still Battle Sequestration: Rep. Rogers

Stunned By Cantor’s Loss, HASC Leaders Will Still Battle Sequestration: Rep. Rogers
Stunned By Cantor’s Loss, HASC Leaders Will Still Battle Sequestration: Rep. Rogers

CAPITOL HILL: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor isn’t physically absent from here yet, but he is close to politically dead after last night’s stunning political defeat by a little known Tea Party supporter from the southern Virginia constituency. I spoke to half a dozen close watchers of defense politics this morning and all but one…

DoD’s $31 Billion Pay, Benefits 2015 Bet; Hill Asks, What About 11 Carriers?

DoD’s $31 Billion Pay, Benefits 2015 Bet; Hill Asks, What About 11 Carriers?
DoD’s $31 Billion Pay, Benefits 2015 Bet; Hill Asks, What About 11 Carriers?

CAPITOL HILL: Sen. Carl Levin made very clear to his colleagues just what is at stake in the inevitable  shout-fest over benefits and compensation. It is the $31 billion saved in the proposed budget in reductions to the rate of pay growth, boosted Tricare payments, and consolidations in the healthcare program, the 5 percent reduction…

US Dominance, Major Programs At Risk In 2015 Budget

US Dominance, Major Programs At Risk In 2015 Budget
US Dominance, Major Programs At Risk In 2015 Budget

She’s baaack! After having the temerity to give birth to a child and thus deprive us of her insights for several months, Mackenzie Eaglen of the American Enterprise Institute has penned an op-ed on the 2015 budget. She casts it in a fairly gloomy light, pointing to the haunting possibility of a hollow force in the…