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Washington Post
November 22, 2008
He helped Douglas shape the major civil rights bills of the era and spoke with admiration of Douglas's highly unusual criticism of defense spending during ...
Spero News
November 22, 2008
Indeed, it has been observed that cost and schedule instability have remained problems in the acquisition process dating back to the American Revolution. ...
The Tribune-Democrat
November 22, 2008
BY ZACHARY HUBBARD Many people scoffed at President-elect
Barack Obama's suggestions during his campaign that
the United States can trim its defense budget ...
Ithaca Journal
November 22, 2008
They called for massive cuts in defense spending. That ignores the very real threats to American and world security that we continue to face; I don't think ...
Scripps News
November 21, 2008
The
US military wonders in a recent official review of Chinese defense spending what lies behind
Beijing's continuing naval build-up. ...
Reuters
November 21, 2008
US defense spending climbed more than 60 percent during the eight years of
the Bush administration, and will total at least $612.5 billion in fiscal 2009, ...
Reuters
November 20, 2008
Asked about reports that the defense budget recommendation for fiscal 2010, due to be sent to Congress in early February, would be about $56 billion above ...
Telegraph.co.uk
November 20, 2008
A Japanese warship failed to shoot down a dummy missile in a test of a defence shield being developed with
the United States to protect against a possible ...
Seeking Alpha
November 18, 2008
With
the US already at war and facing an increasingly troubled world, it is probably not a good time to make large reductions to the defense budget. ...
Project on Government Oversight
November 18, 2008
Senator McCain (R-AZ) has worked tirelessly year after year to advance acquisition reforms in the annual defense spending bills, in many cases only to be ...
NCR Conversation Cafe
November 18, 2008
Meanwhile,
the US 2009 defense budget exceeds the combined defense budgets of all other countries in the world. The US 2009 "supplemental" budget for
Iraq ...
The Nation.
November 18, 2008
Look for an inside-outside strategy to reframe the debate on the defense budget to emerge in the coming weeks. This week, the new American Progressive ...
Council on Foreign Relations
November 18, 2008
With some important caveats, military analysts broadly agree that President-elect
Barack Obama will inherit a
US military hobbled by aging weaponry, ...
The Emory Wheel
November 17, 2008
Reagan the
rhetorician campaigned on fiscal discipline; Reagan the president drastically increased
US defense spending. But his rhetoric worked, ...
Foreign Policy In Focus
November 17, 2008
Lew Rockwell
November 17, 2008
They equate
US soldiers killing for the state in some foreign war that has nothing to do with defending
the United States as defending our freedoms. ...
Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
November 17, 2008
Tying defense spending to GDP successfully brings debates about future US defense policy to the forefront. As a legitimate policy option, however, ...
Citizens Voice
November 17, 2008
Late last year, Congress inserted a inserted a similar provision into defense spending bill, but a loophole let FPI continue to get first preference in ...
ArmyTimes.com
November 17, 2008
He worries about the
military budget under Obama. "He said he's going to cut all these programs," Siegrist said. "We don't know what this president is going ...
Center For American Progress
November 17, 2008
It holds that
the United States must retain a nuclear arsenal as a strategic deterrent, but should embrace the vision laid out by senior statesmen George ...
Daily Georgian Times
November 17, 2008
Since 2001,
the United States has persistently denounced the ABM Treaty in order to proceed with the construction of these anti-missile shields over US ...
MiamiHerald.com
November 17, 2008
Long hours of progress and setbacks, of small victories and failures, throughout the Central American peace process in the 1980s, showed me that dialogue ...
The National Interest Online
November 17, 2008
Given growing financial constraints, and the need to strengthen US ground forces, it is essential that cuts be made in other parts of the US military budget ...
History News Network
November 17, 2008
Trading Markets (press release)
November 16, 2008
"People are already writing lots of
Articles out here about how the defense budget is going to take a big hit," said David Culp, a Washington, DC, ...
The Japan Times
November 16, 2008
But collectively they are diluting and challenging US suzerainty in ways that would have been unimaginable barely a decade ago, when
the United States ...
ArmyTimes.com
November 16, 2008
Some early signs will come when the Obama administration draws up its first defense budget, expected to be delivered to Congress within three months of his ...
Houston Chronicle
November 16, 2008
Times of the Internet
November 15, 2008
The
global economic downturn will weaken governments in terror-prone countries and hurt
the United States' ability to respond to security threats, ...
The Lincoln Tribune
November 14, 2008
... and a Democratic Congress intent on federalizing
health care and cutting defense spending. There were 57 Democrats and 43 Republicans in the
US Senate. ...
OneNewsNow
November 14, 2008
Barack Obama made it very clear in the Democratic primary campaign that he would be making major cuts to American defense spending. ...
Foreign Policy In Focus
November 14, 2008
The election of
Barack Obama as the nation's first African American president has been heralded as proof that
the United States has finally broken through ...
Evening Bulletin
November 14, 2008
Mr. Obama has already made all kinds of pronouncements on cutting back on defense spending, and his liberal, extremists in Congress are already calling for ...
Motley Fool
November 14, 2008
Meanwhile, the Congress just approved an additional $700 billion in defense spending for the next year. CFACP has retained Breakthematrix to serve as our ...
Grist Magazine
November 14, 2008
Pentagon insiders and defense budget specialists say
the Pentagon has been on a largely unchecked spending spree since 2001 that will prove politically ...
Military & Aerospace Electronics
November 14, 2008
Research and
markets has released a new report, "Defense Spending in
the United States," an industry profile providing data and analysis covering the ...
DetNews.com
November 13, 2008
"It may be that they're deserving of a bailout," said Christopher Hellman, a defense budget expert with the Center for Arms Control & Nonproliferation. ...
Bloomberg
November 13, 2008
Outlays for the
Social Security Administration rose by 13 percent from a year ago to $59.2 billion) from $52.6 billion, while Department of Defense spending ...
Defense Update
November 12, 2008
Meanwhile,
Germany spends only 1.3 percent of its annual GDP on its armed forces, and under current spending plans, its defense budget is to increase by ...
