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    Panetta: ‘Sequestration’ Would Upend Military Strategy

    January 8, 2012

    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 [...]

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    Defense cuts threaten national security

    January 7, 2012

    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 [...]

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    Don’t drop shield vs. threat of Iran

    January 7, 2012

    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 [...]

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    Where are the candidates on our missile defenses?

    December 23, 2011

    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 [...]

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    Budget Cuts Hitting Border Security

    December 15, 2011

    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 [...]

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    Defense cuts a threat to our national security

    December 14, 2011

    Greg Slavonic
    The Oklahoman

    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 new [...]

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    Dem lawmakers urge Obama to stand strong on mandated Defense cuts

    December 13, 2011

    John T. Bennett
    The Hill

    A House liberal is leading an effort to urge President Obama to veto any bill that seeks to void additional defense cuts.

    Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), in a letter that soon will go to Obama, states support for Obama’s pledge to reject any legislative [...]

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    Missile Defense Must Not Be Cut

    December 13, 2011

    Adm. James A. Lyons Jr.
    Daily News-Record

    In November 1983, ABC television broadcast a two-hour film titled “The Day After,” which imagined a full-scale nuclear war on America. In his diary, President Reagan wrote that the film was “very effective and left me greatly depressed.” Historians have speculated that [...]
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    US must avoid devastating round of defence cuts

    December 12, 2011

    Brigadier General William A. Bloomer
    Financial Times

    Sir, Now they have had a chance to study the issue, Democrats and Republicans alike can see that cutting another trillion dollars from defence would devastate the United States military strength, ending virtually all new research and modernisation programmes, eliminating scores of [...]

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    Indefensible

    December 12, 2011

    Major General Richard M. Cooke, U.S. Marine Corps (ret.)
    Los Angeles Times

    Re ” ‘The 21st century form of war,’ ” Dec. 5

    Whatever caused the recent explosion at a suspected nuclear weapons plant in Iran, the U.S. should prepare itself for a nuclear-armed Iran. But Congress [...]

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