A couple of members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said at one of last week’s hearings into the impact of sequestration’s looming budget cuts that more U.S. troops – and even civilians – will die if those cuts occur.
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“I would.”
— Former defense secretary and vice president Dick Cheney on whether he would vote against Chuck Hagel's nomination to serve as defense secretary, in a conversation with Charlie Rose.
Medal of Dishonor?
So there has been a fair amount of blowback from U.S. troops and veterans on the Pentagon‘s announcement last week of the Distinguished Warfare Medal, created to recognize the battlefield contributions of troops who don’t risk …
Going Rate for Pentagon Physicists: $200 an Hour
Friday’s Pentagon contract announcement of “a five-year, sole source, cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, task order contract” to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., …
Jesse Jackson Jr. Faces Federal Fraud and Conspiracy Charges
The Justice Department Friday charged former Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. with using $750,000 in campaign money to buy personal items, including furs, furniture and a Rolex watch. The son of a civil rights leader with a …
Steuart Pittman, Fallen Father of the Fallout Shelter
Steuart L. Pittman, the man who tried to woo Americans into fallout shelters a half-century ago to protect them from nuclear fallout, has died.
Pittman served as the chief of President John Kennedy’s civil defense program. …
Ash Carter: Deputy Defense Secretary…and Troublemaker
Things were going swimmingly at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing Thursday looking into the impact sequestration’s budget cuts would have on the government. Then Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said the …
Maureen O’Connor: Former San Diego Mayor Bet More Than $1 Billion as a Result of Gambling Addiction
The former politician promised a federal judge she would pay back the $2 million she’d taken from her husband’s charity in order to stay out of jail.
Atomic Flashback
Interesting to read the back-and-forth between Robert Zarate of the Foreign Policy Initiative, and Kingston Reif of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, over how big the U.S. nuclear stockpile should be.
It …
Army Taking to the Skies
The Army is the nation’s ground-pounding force. It flies helicopters, but it leaves most of the fixed-wing fun to the Air Force, Navy and Marines (cf. F-35, which is being flown by those three services, but not the …
Mama Bird
Led by a USAF B-52 bomber, aircraft from the U.S. Japan and Australia fly Feb. 5 over the Pacific Ocean.
The Banality of Unilateral Nuclear Cuts
U.S. nuclear weapons strategy remains largely based on a confrontation with the Soviet Union that no longer exists.
There is an emerging bipartisan and military consensus that it is time for an updated strategy and that a …
Hagel (continued)
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta flew home to California late Thursday, but unfortunately – for him – his job went with him, too.
He was hoping that the Senate would confirm former Republican senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska …