Bankruptcy or bombs: Sprawling defense budget sets US up for financial and military ruin

Bankruptcy or bombs: Sprawling defense budget sets US up for financial and military ruin
Bankruptcy or bombs: Sprawling defense budget sets US up for financial and military ruin

Defense Priorities’ Daniel L. Davis argues the US should spend all the money necessary to keep the country safe and enable its armed forces to meet its global treaty obligations – but not to become the force of first resort for any nation on earth.

Lawmakers name familiar faces in defense to budgeting reform commission

Lawmakers name familiar faces in defense to budgeting reform commission
Lawmakers name familiar faces in defense to budgeting reform commission

Leadership of the House and Senate Armed Services Committee named their selections to the NDAA-mandated Commission on Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution Reform.

HASC Votes To Increase Defense Budget By $23.9 Billion

HASC Votes To Increase Defense Budget By $23.9 Billion
HASC Votes To Increase Defense Budget By $23.9 Billion

WASHINGTON: Members of the House Armed Services Committee have voted for a $23.9 billion increase in the defense budget request, in a move likely to receive pushback from progressive members of President Joe Biden’s party. The vote, which saw 14 Democrats join with the committee’s Republican block, was a victory for Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala.,…

Biden’s First Budget Tries ‘Too Much With Too Little,’ New Wargame Finds

Biden’s First Budget Tries ‘Too Much With Too Little,’ New Wargame Finds
Biden’s First Budget Tries ‘Too Much With Too Little,’ New Wargame Finds

“Our analysis of the FY22 budget and the strategy that we think the Biden administration is going in, it is trying to do too much with too little,” says Becca Wasser of CNAS.

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…

Our Nukes Cost More Than You Think; Stimson Pegs Annual Nuke Spending At $31B

The defense budget is going down…have you heard? The presidential campaign is shedding a lot of heat, but very little light on this reality; you won’t hear much of substance about how or where it will go down. Or much sensible or reasonable discussion about how we manage a defense build-down in a way that…

Winslow Wheeler Moves To POGO

Notorious defense budget analyst moves to POGO! Winslow Wheeler, member of AOL D’s Board of Contributors, will keep annoying folks for us. colinclarkaol

Industry, Unions Step Up Pressure To Block Automatic Defense Cuts

WASHINGTON: The aerospace industry and its largest union have started a new campaign to pressure Congress and the administration to prevent sequester, which they say could result in the loss of more than one million jobs from aerospace, defense and related activities. The new drive, kicked off with a news conference today (3/7), is called…