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    Report: Defense cuts could have $61M impact on JeffCo

    February 15, 2012

    Birmingham Business Journal

    2/15/12

    Federal defense spending cuts could result in a $61 million revenue decrease for Jefferson County, according to a new report.

    The Center for Security Policy has compiled an economic impact report on how defense budget cuts taking effect in 2013 might impact the Alabama economy.

    [...]
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    Defense Cuts

    February 14, 2012

    Rear Adm James J. Carey
    Ventura County Star

    As we near the end of the war in Afghanistan, we are reminded of the terrible costs of war, and the importance of avoiding them whenever possible. Yet, the drastic defense budget cuts triggered by the debt-ceiling deal could actually make [...]

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    Obama Budget Slashes Defense

    February 14, 2012

    By: Bill Gertz
    Washington Free Beacon

    2/14/12

    The Obama administration on Monday unveiled the first of a potential $1 trillion in cuts over the next decade in what critics say is a policy that will leave the military under-equipped and ill-prepared to meet future global threats.

    The Pentagon released [...]

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    Colorado defense firms could lose millions of dollars in Obama budget plan

    February 14, 2012

    By: Ann Schrader
    Denver Post

    2/14/12

    Colorado businesses could lose hundreds of millions of dollars, up to more than $1 billion, under proposed federal defense budget cuts for fiscal 2013, according to a national security organization.

    The Obama administration proposed a 9 percent defense cut that would result in [...]

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    How Will the 2013 Defense Budget Cuts Affect Oregon?

    February 14, 2012

    Salem-News

    2/14/12

    (WASHINGTON, DC) – On February 13, the Obama administration presented its 2013 budget to Congress, with projected defense budget cuts, described by Rep. Howard P “Buck” McKeon, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee as “over $45 billion less than the President’s request for last year.”

    To assist [...]

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    Defense Breakdown: The Security and Economic Implications of Defense Spending Cuts

    February 13, 2012

    The Center for Security Policy and the Coalition for the Common Defense held a press briefing to announce the release of Defense Breakdown: Economic Impact Reports on Wednesday, February 1 at the Rayburn House Office Building, in Washington, DC. The event featured Rep. Michael Turner (OH-3), Rep. Trent [...]
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    Cutting defense spending dangerous

    February 13, 2012

    Dr. Scott Magill
    The Journal Times 

    Your editorial about defense spending (“Defense spending needs harder look,” 2/3) advised Congress to take a hard line against funding increases above the president’s proposed budget. But the more likely scenario is much more dangerous: another round of drastic cuts next January, sapping [...]

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    Viewpoint:: Washington must wake up to missile threat

    February 13, 2012

    Arne Pedersen
    Herald Bulletin 

    Three years after President Obama opened an outstretched hand to Iran and attempted to reset relations with Russia, the former has restarted its drive to build nuclear weapons including recent missile testing and saber rattling while the latter has dropped its diplomatic relations to Cold [...]

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    Budget cuts will hurt military capability

    February 11, 2012

    Richard M. Cooke
    San Diego Union-Tribune

     

    $350 billion. $500 billion. $1 trillion. Big cuts are coming to the Pentagon, but no one has explained how these cuts will affect our national security or our troops.

    One thing is certain: The bulk of these cuts will come from funding [...]

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    Sequestration will sink plans

    February 9, 2012

    Rear Adm. Norm Saunders
    Stars & Stripes.

    Your upbeat report about the Obama administration’s current plans for the Navy (“Official says Navy crucial to future US defense plans,” article, Feb. 3, Europe edition) ignored the far more likely possibility that budget cuts coming under “sequestration” next January will upend [...]

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