GOP Candidates Pledge To Fix Unready, Rudderless US Military

GOP Candidates Pledge To Fix Unready, Rudderless US Military
GOP Candidates Pledge To Fix Unready, Rudderless US Military

WASHINGTON: The men who urgently want to be commander in chief of the United States military offered a glum vision of the state of the armed services last night. Jeb Bush: In this administration, every weapon system has been gutted, in this administration, the force levels are going down to a level where we can’t…

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Don’t Expect Much About DoD From Obama’s Last SOTU

Don’t Expect Much About DoD From Obama’s Last SOTU
Don’t Expect Much About DoD From Obama’s Last SOTU

WASHINGTON: You never know til they deliver the speech, but all the indications are that President Obama is not going to discuss much of interest tonight about the Defense Department or the Pentagon budget and will mostly talk to Congress and to us about America’s future and how much better it could be. What does that…

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Mac Thornberry: Congress Must Empower Special Operations – EXCLUSIVE

WASHINGTON: Tomorrow morning, overshadowed by sequestration, the House Armed Services Committee will hold a rare full-committee hearing on a topic that would normally be high-profile, even explosive: whether to give the Defense Department, and especially its elite special operators, broader legal authority to work with foreign forces worldwide, from Colombia to Mali to the Philippines.…

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