Washington – Today, Representatives Steven Palazzo (MS), Allen West (FL), Marsha Blackburn (TN) and Jon Runyan (NJ), join Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard P. “Buck” McKeon in making an appeal to President Obama to reverse damaging sequestration cuts on the horizon by joining them in supporting H.R. 3662, the Down Payment to [...]
Brig. Gen. Stephen C. Boone
The Fayetteville Observer
You’re right: defense budget cuts threaten the economic vitality of Fayetteville and other communities with a significant military presence. (“Shrinking – What can we do to offset defense budget cuts?” Jan. 15) But make no mistake: the threat to national security is also very [...]
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Lt. Gen. E.G. “Buck” Shuler
The Seattle Times
Your Jan. 11 editorial was right that Pentagon spending deserves scrutiny, but Congress’s plan to blindly cut $1 trillion from the defense budget would dismantle our military and could decimate economies like Seattle’s that are dependent on the aerospace industry. [“Yes, defense cuts too,” [...]
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Geoffrey P. Wiedeman Jr.
The Sacramento Bee
Re “U.S. military future: Strong reasons to cut spending” (Online, Jan 9): In his column about President Obama’s plan for a slimmer military, defense analyst Michael O’Hanlon noted that the president’s vision doesn’t account for the trillion-dollar defense cuts proposed by the congressional debt ceiling [...]
Continue Reading →Rear Adm James J. Carey (Ret).
Financial Times
Sir, Even if the Pentagon’s new defence strategy is workable (“Pentagon to focus on China and Iran”, report, January 6), there is no guarantee that Congress will fund it. If we need – as defence secretary [...]
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By Karen Parrish
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8, 2012 – The Defense Department’s new 10-year strategy will go “out the window” if the federal Budget Control Act’s additional spending cuts go into effect next year, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said.
“If we had to do over a trillion dollars in cuts [...]
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Rear Admiral Greg Slavonic, USN (Ret.)
Edmond Sun
EDMOND — The same month that Congress cut $1 trillion from the defense budget, satellite photos revealed that blackened holes had replaced two buildings at a remote Iranian military facility.
According to analysts, the blast indicates that Iranian rocket scientists are working on a breakthrough in [...]
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James J. Carey
The Boston Globe
Given the recent UN report on Iran’s race to a nuclear weapon and the recent explosion that suggests that the country is close to building a long-range ballistic missile, it would seem foolish for Congress to approve unprecedented cuts to the defense budget that could slash funding for, [...]
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Fred Grandy
Des Moines Register
I found it strange how, when asked about the danger posed by an Iran armed with nuclear ICBMs, none of the Republican candidates noted that U.S. missile defenses are the only thing that protect us from a nuclear holocaust.
Yet Congress is proposing deep defense cuts that would lower [...]
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Ben Lerner
Big Peace
Yesterday marked the 12-year anniversary of the thwarting of what could have been a devastating terrorist attack on the United States. Twelve years ago yesterday, Algerian national Ahmed Ressam was caught attempting to smuggle a detonator and 130 pounds of explosives into the United States from Canada by ferry, with the [...]
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