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    It’s crazy to take an accountant’s approach to cutting the defense budget

    January 27, 2012

    Gary Schmitt
    Fox News

    The November 2010 congressional elections brought a host of new members came to Washington. Elected, they believed, and correctly so, to change the course in the nation’s capital, their first priority was getting government spending and the immense deficit it was producing under control.

    The [...]

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    Defense cuts imperil our security

    January 27, 2012

    Ernie Elliot
    The Enquirer

    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 [...]

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    Video: Congressional Members appeal to President to reverse sequestration

    January 24, 2012

    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. [...]

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    Defense budget cuts threaten security

    January 23, 2012

    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 [...]

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    Spending deserves scrutiny

    January 22, 2012

    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 [...]

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    Defense Cuts a threat to our national security

    January 22, 2012

    Rear Admiral Greg Slavonic
    Claremore Daily Press

    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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    Defense cuts are dangerous

    January 21, 2012

    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 [...]

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    Rethink cuts to defence budget

    January 20, 2012

    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 [...]

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    Defense cuts could be devastating

    January 20, 2012

    George Landrith
    Dayton Daily News

    This article on the economic effects of the trillion-dollar defense cut imposed by the debt ceiling deal neglected to outline how the cuts would devastate our national security at a time when the Middle East is unstable, China is building an aircraft carrier fleet, [...]

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    Dangerous Cuts

    January 16, 2012

    Adrian Cronauer
    Defense News

    As budgets shrink, we can bring down military costs at home and keep American assembly lines at work by selling some of our best equipment to allies abroad, from the legendary F-16 – now flown by over 20 allies (soon to include Iraq) – to [...]

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