The first 100 days of the Obama administration have been promising, but to paraphrase Death of a Salesman, 'Attention must [continue to] be paid.'"
Lorelei Kelly | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics
If we kill people, we lose the war. The most significant achievement of the Obama Administration thus far is a consistent and systematic understanding that security as we know it has fundamentally changed.
Ilan Goldenberg | Posted 05.28.2009 | World
In 100 days, the Obama administration has taken more than 100 actions that are reshaping American foreign policy, reversing the failures of the Bush administration, and renewing America's standing in the world.
Eric Stoner | Posted 05.16.2009 | World
China's official military budget jumped to $60 billion, an 18 percent increase over last year, but US officials warned that the actual figure is somewhere between $105 and $150 billion annually.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics
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bloomberg.com | Lee J. Miller | Posted 05.10.2009 | Business
April 9 (Bloomberg) -- Lockheed Martin Corp. had the "best outcome" from the U.S. Defense Department's proposed budget announced this week, with Boein...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics
It's been so long since I've bothered to read The Page that yesterday's instance of Mark Halperin using Time magazine as a venue for his kindergarten ...
Dina Rasor | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics
The Pentagon uses historic costs to base how much a new weapon will cost. This is a fundamental flaw that dooms us to pay exponentially more for each new generation of weapons.
Chris Kelly | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics
The defense budget is being cut in the sense that it's going up. The F-22 has been killed in sense that we've appropriated all the money we need to keep building them until we have to think about it again. The good news is that we're calling bad news good news.
Max Bergmann | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics
The budget laid out by Gates gives a clear indication that the Obama administration is serious about finally shedding the legacy of the Cold War and building a military that is suitable for the 21st century.
Michael Conniff | Posted 05.06.2009 | Politics
Earmarks and entitlements are chickenfeed compared to defense spending, but to conservatives the Defense Department has always been sacrosanct.
Lt. General Robert G. Gard Jr. (USA, Ret.) | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics
In today's disastrous economic climate, the U.S. government desperately needs to prioritize its top national security objectives and realign spending accordingly.
Joe Cirincione | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics
In putting the hammer down on the Missile Defense Agency this week, Carl Levin served notice that the lax policies of the Bush administration were over.
John Feffer | Posted 04.24.2009 | World
International law notwithstanding, the United States has long treated the Pacific as an American lake and China as beachfront property that we have to keep a special eye on.
The Boston Globe | Posted 04.17.2009 | Politics
As the Bush administration was drawing to a close, Robert M. Gates, whose two years as defense secretary had been devoted to wars in Iraq and Afghanis...
Wall Street Journal | August Cole | Posted 04.07.2009 | Politics
President Barack Obama fired a surprise broadside at the defense industry, saying he intends to clamp down on practices that have resulted in billions...
Gordon Adams | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics
The White House has actually proposed increasing defense spending by about 3%. This would represent budget discipline at Defense that has been sorely absent for the past 8 years.
Chris Kelly | Posted 04.06.2009 | Politics
The F-22 Raptor is a plane designed in the early 90s to fight the planes the Soviet Union didn't build in the late 80s. The reason we've never used the Raptor in Iraq is it doesn't work in places where there are wars.
Sam Sedaei | Posted 03.06.2009 | World
The United States can strengthen its security much more effectively by reallocating billions of dollars of defense spending towards other initiatives.
Fox News | Posted 03.04.2009 | Politics
The Obama administration has asked the military's Joint Chiefs of Staff to cut the Pentagon's budget request for the fiscal year 2010 by more than 10 ...
Eric C. Anderson | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics
Bloat and redundancy have turned the intelligence community into a full-time "make-work" program for approximately 70,000 federal employees and over 30,000 contractors.
Chris Kelly | Posted 02.03.2009 | World
In his latest radio address, President Bush lambasted Hamas for "spending its resources on rocket launchers instead of roads and schools." Is he really that unconscious or does he say these things just to make people crazy?
Lorelei Kelly | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics
We have to do something about our current situation. We're spending more and more on defense and purchasing less and less security for it.
Joe Cirincione | Posted 01.04.2009 | Politics
By cutting Cold War nuclear weapons, Obama could help save the auto industry, or finance anti-terrorism efforts, or rebuild the Army and Marine Corps crippled by the Iraq War.
Tom Andrews | Posted 01.01.2009 | Politics
Obama should declare that seeking regime change in Iran is no longer the policy of the U.S. and initiate diplomatic contacts with the Iranian government immediately without preconditions.
Gordon Adams | Posted 05.30.2009 | World