Obama Defense Budget

Obama Defense Contractor Battle Only Just Begun: AP

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics

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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 05.23.2009 | Politics

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Adam Elkus

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 05.08.2009 | Politics

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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 05.07.2009 | Politics

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Chris Kelly

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 04.20.2009 | Home

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Gordon Adams

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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Jason Linkins

First Shot Fired In Defense Budget Battle

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics

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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 01.09.2009 | Politics

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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 12.11.2008 | Politics

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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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