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    Dangers of sequestration

    February 7, 2012

    Brigadier General William A. Bloomer
    The Washington Times

    My good friend Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, and his colleagues are right: U.S. military superiority is in jeopardy if Congress doesn’t overturn the automatic budget cuts scheduled to hit in less than a year (“Senate Republicans aim to ease defense [...]

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    Defense cuts undermining ability of U.S. to confront Iranian threat

    February 6, 2012

    By Admiral Ernie Elliot

    After the International Atomic Energy Agency dropped the bombshell news that Iran has accelerated its drive to build a nuclear weapon, you’d expect leaders on Capitol Hill to hold a flurry of hearings on how to counter the threat.

    Instead, congressional hearing rooms have been booked [...]

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    Center for Security Policy: Potential Economic Impacts of Proposed Defense Cuts

    February 2, 2012

    By: Ruth King
    Ruthfully Yours

    2/2/12

    Washington, DC February 1, 2012 – The Center for Security Policy today released their “Defense Breakdown Economic Impact Reports,” a collection of 2,750 online detailed reports and 51 Summary Reports presenting a “National Average” estimated economic impact from projected defense cuts, for cities, [...]

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    Stake This (Defense) Job and Love It

    February 2, 2012

    By: Mark Thompson
    Time Battleland

    2/2/12

    Patriotism may be the last refuge of a scoundrel, as Samuel Johnson famously declared in 1775, but it beats banging the drums for defense spending because of the jobs it creates. Yes, jobs are critical in these tough economic times – and the [...]

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    Your Piece of the Sequestration Pie

    February 1, 2012

    Philip Ewing
    DOD Buzz

    Unpleasant truth time: These days, nobody cares about defense issues.

    Outside the family, people are worried about home prices; unemployment; the debt; and who Simon is going to bring in to replace Nicole Scherzinger and Paula Abdul. Voters’ lack of interest in defense has meant this [...]

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    Rojo: Defense Cuts Pose a Security Threat

    February 1, 2012

    Eric Rojo
    Roll Call

    President Barack Obama’s best chance of getting a divided Congress to act in an election year (“Obama Takes Congress to Task in SOTU Address,” Jan. 25) is to marshal the wide bipartisan support for halting the devastating defense budget cuts automatically triggered by sequestration — [...]

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    Obama supports military in words only

    January 31, 2012

    Lt. General E.G. “Buck Shuler”
    The Washington Times

    President Obama began and ended his State of the Union speech last week by celebrating our armed forces (“State of the Union: Obama calls for taxes, investments,” Page I, Jan. 25), but his actual policies are putting the military at risk.

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    Automatic cuts will harm the military

    January 31, 2012

    Rear Admiral James J. Carey (Ret.) USN
    The Journal News

    Re “Work together for recovery,” Jan. 24 editorial: Your above editorial on the economy neglected to mention the shadow of automatic budget cuts scheduled for next year — particularly when it comes to defense. By closing its eyes and [...]

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    Military Cuts are Risky

    January 30, 2012

    Rear Adm. James Carey
    San Diego Union Tribune

    With a trillion dollars in defense cuts already written into law, it’s hard to see how the Navy can promise much of anything, let alone a new carrier for North Island Naval Air Station (“Navy confirms 3rd carrier for [...]

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    Defense Funding

    January 27, 2012

    Rear Admiral Ernie Elliot
    Columbus Dispatch

    The news that Ohio lost a third of its high-tech manufacturing jobs in the past decade is sobering (“Ohio bled high-tech jobs in past decade, “ 1/18). Unfortunately, the trend could get worse if Congress follows through with a budget plan that would [...]

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