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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 ...
Chinese 'Carrier Killer' Missile Challenges US Regional Power
By Joseph Schuman - AOL NewsMajor advances in China's military prowess -- specifically with powerful anti-ship missiles known as aircraft "carrier killers" -- could threaten the U.S. Navy's ability to maintain strategic dominance in the western Pacific and safeguard the independence of Taiwan. Adm. Robert Willard, commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, told the daily Japanese newspaper Asahi that China's anti-ship ballistic missiles have achieved "initial operational capability" -- meaning they have apparently been tested enough to be used. Max Smith / Wikipedia China is developing an anti-ship ballistic ...
Three Potential Problems With Obama's Missile Defense Plan
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsA new arms-control pact with Russia has finally received Senate approval, helped along with an amendment assuring Republicans that START won't limit the United States' ability to pursue missile defense. In some ironic timing, however, the Government Accountability Office this week released a report that is deeply critical of the administration's missile defense plans. U.S. Navy / AP A Standard Missile-3 is launched from the Aegis cruiser USS Shiloh during a ballistic missile flight test in 2006, off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii. The Bush administration focused on ...
START Treaty Up for Cliffhanger Vote in Senate
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyWith the clock running out on the lame-duck session of Congress, the Senate expects to begin voting Tuesday on ratification of the Strategic Arms Nuclear Reduction Treaty, the arms-reduction pact signed in Prague by President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in April. Proponents of the bill will need 60 votes to end debate on the measure on Tuesday, followed by a two-thirds majority, likely 67 votes, to ratify the treaty later in the week. The issue has become an increasingly contentious one, as Democrats have pushed Republicans to approve the treaty without significant changes, ...
NATO Summit to Focus on Afghanistan, Iran
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News
(Nov. 16) -- The official goal of the NATO summit President Barack Obama attends this weekend in Portugal is a remodeling of the military alliance for the 21st century, but the biggest news out of Lisbon is likely to focus on Afghanistan and Iran. For more than a year, NATO leaders, senior American defense and diplomatic officials and their counterparts from the other 27 member countries have been working on a new strategic concept, a "guide" for the alliance over the next decade that will make it more relevant not only to the post-Cold War world but to the post-9/11 world as well. It will ...
Turkey Voices Reservations About Western Missile Defense
By Justin Vela - AOL News
BELGRADE, Serbia (Oct. 19) -- Turkey is expressing reservations about a proposed missile defense shield aimed at protecting NATO members from attacks by rogue states such as Iran, posing a dilemma for Washington. According to recent news reports, Ankara is worried that the missile shield is singling out Iran and Syria, neighboring countries with which Turkey maintains close bilateral ties on crucial issues such as trade, energy and security. In August, AOL News reported that the U.S. is trying to convince either Bulgaria or Turkey to host an important X-band radar station that will detect ...
Test of Missile-Blasting Laser Weapon Fizzles
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News(Sept. 7) -- A much-anticipated test of a laser cannon deployed on a Boeing jumbo jet failed to blow up a target meant to mimic a nuclear-tipped ballistic missile. The failure, which has not been previously reported, occurred during an exercise that was supposed to demonstrate the laser's ability to shoot down an incoming ballistic missile at a range of over 100 miles. But the weapon prematurely stopped zapping the missile and failed to destroy it. Missile Defense Agency The test of an Airborne Laser, or laser cannon, housed in the nose cone of a Boeing 747, like the one shown here, failed ...
Pentagon Again Delays Test of Missile-Blasting Laser
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Aug. 18) -- The Defense Department was forced to delay again a key test of a powerful missile-destroying laser equipped on a Boeing aircraft due to technical problems. The test, described as "unprecedented," was scheduled for Tuesday night at a sea test range off California, but officials were forced to reschedule it after a problem was identified with the cooling system used on a tracking camera for the system. It couldn't be fixed in time to make the test window. The test has been rescheduled for Aug. 21. This is the third delay of the test, which is designed to demonstrate ...
US Missile Defense Radar: Homeless but Searching
By Justin Vela - AOL NewsSOFIA, Bulgaria (Aug. 6) -- What if you had a missile system and nowhere to put part of it? That seems to be Washington's dilemma as it shops around for a site for a system meant to protect its forces and allies in Europe and the Mideast from possible missile attacks from Iran. Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov this week denied a report in The Washington Post that his government was engaged in talks with Washington about hosting a radar station, a key part of the system intended to thwart Iran's budding missile capability, which might one day even include nuclear warheads. Turkey, ...
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