Obama Defense Budget

Obama Proposal Passes Test

AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 05.24.2012

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WASHINGTON — A Senate panel on Thursday rejected the Pentagon's proposed cuts in personnel and equipment for the Air National Guard as it comple...

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GOP Blasts Obama Defense Budget 5 Times Larger Than China's

Bloomberg | Posted 05.22.2012

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Republicans and President Barack Obama are squaring off again over federal spending, only this time the president wants to cut it and the Republicans ...

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House Panel Spares One Area From Fiscal Discipline

AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 05.10.2012

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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta slammed a House panel on Thursday for adding billions of dollars to President Barack Obama's defense...

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House Rejecting Obama Cuts...For The Military

AP | ROBERT BURNS and DONNA CASSATA | Posted 05.10.2012

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WASHINGTON — The House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday backed construction of a missile defense site on the East Coast, rejecting Pentagon...

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Obama's Missed Opportunity on Defense

William Hartung | Posted 03.24.2012

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There is much to criticize in the Pentagon's new strategy -- most notably its unwillingness to sharply curtail the number of missions expected of our armed forces. But there are positive elements of the administration's proposed approach as well.

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Obama's Pentagon Strategy: A Leaner, More Efficient Empire

Medea Benjamin | Posted 03.07.2012

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If you want to see what Obama's military strategy really is, forget what's said at press conferences and in turgidly written Pentagon press releases. Just look at the record.

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Obama To Reveal Defense Strategy

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 03.06.2012

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WASHINGTON — Looking beyond the wars he inherited, President Barack Obama on Thursday launched a reshaping and shrinking of the military. He vow...

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Panetta: Every Part Of Defense Budget 'Must Be On The Table'

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR and DONNA CASSATA | Posted 08.09.2011

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WASHINGTON — Leon Panetta, President Barack Obama's choice to head the Pentagon, predicted on Thursday that Iraq will ask the United States to k...

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Afghanistan War Cost To Be Biggest Factor In Debate Over Troop Reductions

Washington Post | Posted 07.30.2011

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Of all the statistics that President Obama’s national security team will consider when it debates the size of forthcoming troop reductions in Afghan...

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Member Of John Boehner's 'Kitchen Cabinet' Of Economists Supports Afghan Withdrawal

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 06.11.2011

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WASHINGTON -- As Congress looks at all sorts of discretionary non-defense projects to cut to reduce the deficit, a core member of House Speaker John B...

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Robert Gates' Budget Dance

Lawrence Korb | Posted 05.25.2011

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Why is the base defense budget higher than was projected and higher after Robert Gates made his reductions? The answer is simple. Most of the cuts he claimed credit for were not reductions.

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Al Franken's Anti-Rape Amendment Makes Defense Budget

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Barack Obama's 2011 defense budget proposal includes language that would prevent the government from working with contractors who deny victi...

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Defense Budget 2011: Pentagon Plans To Increase Funds for Afghan, Iraq Wars

AFP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Obama administration plans to unveil a defense budget on Monday that pours billions into drones, helicopters and special forces...

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Obama Defense Contractor Battle Only Just Begun: AP

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has chalked up a quick victory in its drive to kill an expensive jet fighter better suited for the Cold Wa...

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The Gates Revolution

Adam Elkus | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gates is doing something far more radical than just canceling big-ticket weapons programs: he's finally fusing theory and policy.

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Sen. Inhofe Claims Obama "Disarming America"

azcentral.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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A group of senators including Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.; Jim Inhofe, R-Okla.; and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., fired off a letter to President Barack Obama saying p...

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Don't Kid Yourself -- The F-22 Lives

Chris Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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The War Supplemental is Coming Soon

Gordon Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

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With Obama's first emergency supplemental budget request coming later this week, now is the time to see whether he'll keep his promise. We clearly need such discipline.

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First Shot Fired In Defense Budget Battle

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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No one in politics ever looks bad vowing to "take on the lobbyists," and in his latest YouTube missive, President Barack Obama got downright bellicose...

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Obama's Fighter Jet Decision Represents Clash Of Two Goals

New York Times | CHRISTOPHER DREW | Posted 05.25.2011

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Two of President-elect Barack Obama's stated goals -- cutting wasteful spending and saving or creating millions of jobs -- are on a collision course i...

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Pentagon Board To Obama: You Have To Cut Defense Budget

Boston Globe | Posted 05.25.2011

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A senior Pentagon advisory group, in a series of bluntly worded briefings, is warning President-elect Barack Obama that the Defense Department's curre...

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