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    Strong Defense: Strong America – An initiative of Congressman Randy Forbes

    October 6, 2011

    Dear Friend –

    Some argue that another $600 billion of defense cuts will not hurt America. We can do more with less, they say. Or, we can just do less. They are wrong.

    Even before Congress agreed to slash roughly $400 billion in defense [...]

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    Defense hawks appeal for tea party opposition to additional military spending cuts

    October 6, 2011

    10/6/11
    By: Matthew Boyle
    The Daily Caller

    The Coalition for a Common Defense is asking the congressional deficit-reduction super committee to refrain from making any cuts to defense spending, and it’s making a pitch to grassroots fiscal conservatives from the tea party movement to do so.

    [...]
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    Countering the growing missile threat

    October 3, 2011

    By Owen Graham

    Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

    Friday, September 23, 2011

    America faces a growing missile threat from abroad — along with the prospect of huge defense cuts. Something’s wrong with this equation.

    Speakers at the annual Space and Missile Defense Conference in Huntsville, Ala., outlined the extent of that threat and [...]

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    Providing for the Common Defense: The First Duty of the ‘Super Committee’

    September 30, 2011

     

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    Cordially Invites you to: Providing for the Common Defense: The First Duty of the ‘Super Committee’
    Wednesday, October 5th from 3:30 p.m to 4:30 p.m. at  Congressional Meeting Room North, CVC 268, Capitol Visitor Center 1st Street, SE and East Capitol [...]
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    House Armed Services Committee Assessment of Budget Cuts

    September 30, 2011

    The House Armed Services committee staff recently released an assessment of the impact of further cuts to military spending and the results are bleak.

    Primary concerns include:

    A hollow force, akin to the Carter era, making defending freedom harder and more expensive in both blood and [...]
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    Pentagon budget cuts will embolden our enemies

    September 29, 2011

    From retired Rear Adm. Joseph F. Callo, USNR, author of John Paul Jones: America’s First Sea Warrior

    Regarding The Hill’s Sept. 20 article, “Obama defends Libya action, says US is ‘proud’ of its role”: The irony of our belated victory in Libya is that it may be one of the [...]

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    Deficits don’t stem from defense spending

    September 29, 2011
    News & Observer – www.NewsObserver.com Published Thu, Sep 29, 2011 02:00 AM Modified Thu, Sep 29, 2011 05:07 AM BY RICK MCNEEL Published in: Other Views CARY – Congress has returned to Washington with a tough agenda that will impact America’s future economic competitiveness and productivity. The [...]
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    Army, Marines could cut 150K troops

    September 26, 2011

    By: Charles Hoskinson
    Politico, September 26th, 2011

    Automatic cuts to defense spending could leave the Pentagon with its lowest share of the federal budget since before World War II, shrinking the Army and Marine Corps by some 150,000 troops and leaving fewer warships and combat aircraft to project U.S. [...]

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    BRIEFING-Defense and the Constitution: Saving the Military from Washington

    September 17, 2011

    The Coalition for the Common Defense announces an educational briefing:

    Defense and the Constitution: Saving the Military from Washington

    Wednesday, September 21st at 2:30pm.

    at

    The Reserve Officers Association, Symposium Room
    One Constitution Avenue, NE Washington D.C. [...]

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    At the Pentagon, the specter of a sequester

    September 16, 2011

    By George F. Will,

    The Washington Post Published: September 16

    It must take some getting used to. Leon Panetta, the secretary of defense, knows the Pentagon is under 24-hour cyber siege. There constantly are thousands of what he calls “exploitive” cyber probes from nations “pulsing the [...]

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