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Tea Party-Backed Candidates Say Defense Not Exempt From Cuts
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Tea partiers clamoring for the debt-ridden government to slash spending say nothing should be off limits. Tea party-backed lawmakers echo that argument, and they're not exempting the military's multibillion-dollar budget in a time of war. That demand is creating hard choices for the newest members of Congress, especially Republicans who owe their elections and solid House majority to the influential grass-roots movement. Cutting defense and canceling weapons could mean deep spending reductions and high marks from tea partiers as the nation wrestles with a $1.3 trillion deficit. ...
Gates' Big Knife at the Pentagon: Who Wins, Who Loses
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsThe official Pentagon spending request is still weeks away, but some winners and losers are already emerging in the battle for a shrinking portion of the budget pie. Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced major changes to the Pentagon's budget that are expected to rein in future defense spending. "We must come to realize that not every defense program is necessary, not every defense dollar is sacred and well spent, and that more of nearly everything is simply not sustainable," he told reporters at the Pentagon on Thursday. Brittany Y. Bateman, U.S. Air Force An ...
Defense Chief Proposes Cuts to Military Budget
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates is announcing the latest round of cost-cutting measures for the military, including a plan to do away with a new amphibious vehicle that can ferry troops to shore while under fire. The plan is aimed at staving off potentially deeper cuts by the White House or Congress by showing that the Pentagon is taking seriously a call to rein in the nation's deficit. The Defense Department is responsible for the biggest piece of discretionary spending in the federal government's annual budget. It's been largely protected until now. Newly elected tea party ...
Overcoming History, Britain and France Pool Military Assets
By Theunis Bates - AOL News
LONDON (Nov. 2) -- For much of the past millennium, the Franco-British relationship has been defined by a seemingly unending exchange of insults and projectiles. But the two countries' leaders today said au revoir to that ancient cross-channel rivalry and agreed to embark on a new era of unprecedented military cooperation. U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy this morning signed two radical defense documents. The first commits the neighbors to the building of joint facilities for the maintenance and testing of nuclear warheads, a move that could save each ...
New bin Laden Tape Rips Pakistan's Relief Efforts
By Deborah Hastings - AOL News
(Oct. 1) -- Osama bin Laden takes Pakistan to task for not providing enough humanitarian aid for flooding victims in a new audio tape posted today on the Internet. The latest message attributed to bin Laden comes amid indications that the al-Qaida leader is behind the recently discovered plot to launch terrorist attacks in cities throughout Europe. The Associated Press, citing unnamed U.S. counterterrorism officials, reported today that authorities believe bin Laden and other al-Qaida leaders are involved in the plot. Separately, CNN, citing a law enforcement source, reported this week that ...
Flushing Tax Dollars Down the Toilet? The Military's Flying Humvee
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Sept. 30) -- Never underestimate the military's ability to invest money in far-fetched projects. There's Star Wars, of course, the missile defense system that's eaten up decades and billions of dollars but has yet to prove capable of stopping incoming missiles. The concept, though, at least sounds good in theory. After all, it would be nice to be able to shoot down nuclear missiles. But then there are programs, like the DARPA "Transformer" project, which just leave you scratching your head. DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is the Pentagon's futurist agency, which dreams ...
Opinion: America's Unquenchable Defense Spending
By Michael Cohen - AOL News(July 20) -- If there's one issue that seems to unite an increasingly divided and fractured capital, it is the ever-expanding federal budget deficit. Everyone seems wants to curb Washington's appetite for spending. Except one area of the federal budget is seemingly off limits: the $692 billion elephant in the room -- America's defense budget. The calls from Republicans and Democrats for belt-tightening rarely, if ever, seem to extend to the military. Deficit hawks in the House have even demanded that an amendment to the $37 billion Afghanistan spending bill that would allocate $10 billion to ...
Gates: $33B Needed ASAP to Keep Military Afloat
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News(July 14) -- Warning that the military could run out of money as early as next month, the Pentagon is putting pressure on Congress to pass the wartime budget before lawmakers leave for the August break. Defense Secretary Robert Gates was "disappointed that the Congress did not pass the defense supplemental before the July Fourth break," Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said at a press briefing today. The Pentagon is seeking another $33 billion to cover ongoing wartime operations, which will also help pay for President Barack Obama's plan to send another 30,000 troops into Afghanistan. ...
Obama Proposes Another Surge in Military Spending
By Dale Eisman - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Feb. 1) – After moving last year to cancel or scale back some of the military's most expensive weapons programs, the Obama administration announced plans today to continue what has become an era of historic growth in defense spending. New spending blueprints unveiled at the Pentagon would push the U.S. military's budget to $708 billion next year, the most in inflation-adjusted dollars since World War II. The plan also would keep the military budget growing for years to come. About $159 billion (22 percent) of the 2011 total will support forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. The ...
Obama, Gates Propose 4% Increase in Defense Spending
By David Knowles - Politics DailyContrary to the way it is being portrayed by many media outlets and blogs, the Obama administration has put forth a plan that increases overall defense spending by 4% for next year. Over at TPM, Josh Marshall and crew have been monitoring the media meme, stoked by such GOP luminaries as Dick Cheney and Newt Gingrich, that Obama's priorities may be making the country less safe. Here's an exchange between MSNBC and former Defense Secretary William Cohen, who tries to set the record straight:One might reasonably speculate whether ending extraordinary rendition, and returning to the Geneva ...
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