Representatives from Walmart met with Attorney General Eric Holder Thursday to talk guns and gun control. But how important …
Arms sales
Calls for Phantom Defense Cuts Must Stop
Fiscal restraint is en vogue and increasingly the cover many are using to push other agendas. Republicans spent a week in Tampa monitoring America’s mounting national debt at their recent convention. Democrats included a call …
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The Double-Edged Blades of Russian Helicopters
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s in for a strafing on Capitol Hill today. He’s appearing before the Senate Appropriations Committee’s defense subcommittee, but he’s likely to face tough questions on the Defense Department’s …
Disarming Allies…
Seems kind of strange that the U.S. government is turning over warships to the Philippine navy, but only after the vessels have been stripped of their weapons despite Manila’s request that they remain (better not tell the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the Moro National Liberation Front, Abu Sayyaf, the Rajah Sulaiman Movement, Jemaah …
$240 million
Dry British F-35 Humour
The Oxbridge lads at the Economist write an editorial this week on the world’s costliest weapons system ever: the Pentagon’s own F-35 fighter. And while it doesn’t quite rise to sublime Benny Hill quality, it’s pretty close to Monty Python.
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“One senior political source said the military trumps any objections to its recommendations by warning lives will be lost if they don’t get their way.”
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War Prize: Iraq Orders Its F-16s
Three weeks before all U.S. troops are out of Iraq, the U.S. Air Force has just awarded – on behalf of Baghdad – an $835 million contract to Lockheed Martin for 18 F-16 jet fighters. Even before the deal was inked, Iraqi …