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How Contractors Raked in $385 Billion to Build and Support Bases Abroad since 2001

May 14, 2013 | The Huffington Post | National Security

Outside the United States, the Pentagon controls a collection of military bases unprecedented in history. With U.S. troops gone from Iraq... Read More

Held up by MOX(y)

April 29, 2013 | The Hill | Energy , National Security

Sometimes, even in Congress, one can overplay one’s hand protecting turf. Consider the South Carolina delegation’s sharp objection to... Read More

Immigration bill may set funding, regulatory gaps in border security

April 17, 2013 | The Daily Caller | National Security

The Senate’s pending immigration bill sets aside $3.5 billion for additional surveillance of the country’s southern border, or roughly $1.79... Read More

Price Increases for U.S. Military Gear Dwarf Most Nations’ Defense Budgets

April 05, 2013 | WIRED | National Security

Here’s an example of what Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was talking about in his Wednesday speech on reforming the way the Pentagon buys... Read More

U.S. deal with Saudis means $253 million for Lockheed training unit

April 01, 2013 | Orlando Sentinel | National Security

Lockheed Martin Corp. has received a deal worth $253 million to build fighter-jet flight simulators and other training systems for Saudi... Read More

Morning Defense

March 15, 2013 | POLITICO | National Security

Biden to welcome Hagel - Senate CR advances - Sequester solutions brewing? - Lawmakers blast AF over sexual assault case - AIA faces... Read More

Left and Right Unite in Call for Congress to Cut Defense Spending

March 06, 2013 | ALLGOV | Budget & Tax , National Security

One positive thing that the sequestration mess has done is bring liberal and conservative groups together in calling for serious reductions... Read More

Defense Cuts May Not be as Bad as the Pentagon Would Have us Believe

March 04, 2013 | PJ Media | Budget & Tax , National Security

Soldiers are not above politics and the dire warnings we’ve been hearing for months about sequester “gutting” the military may have been... Read More

Defense cut damage viewed as overblown

March 04, 2013 | The Boston Globe | Budget & Tax , National Security

WASHINGTON — The warnings only grew more dire as the deadline approached. Automatic cuts to national defense, Pentagon leaders insisted,... Read More

Retired Army Col. Robert L. McDaniel, 88, fought costly helicopter project

March 04, 2013 | The Washington Post | Budget & Tax , National Security

Robert L. McDaniel, a retired Army colonel and combat helicopter pilot who later led a campaign against a costly Pentagon helicopter project... Read More

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September 13, 2013

Syria: Excuse 535 To Not Cut the Deficit

Volume XVIII No. 37 Possible action in Syria has become the most recent excuse du jour for Pentagon boosters... Read More