The Project for Government Oversight has written a letter to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta reminding him that it’s U.S. taxpayers who pay for nuclear weapons in Europe.
“The President followed his bold action in defying Congress to get his consumer protection bureau going by announcing a new military strategy that is timid in the extreme,” said Pemberton.
Defense cuts — especially to nuclear weapons — are the silver lining of our economic crisis.
A study commissioned by the largest defense industry trade association says that military spending creates jobs. The facts, however, indicate otherwise.
A disagreement is ongoing about what exactly should and shouldn’t be included in the nuclear-weapons budget.
Even if sequestration cuts across all military programs, this sort of ham-handed approach is safely doable.
Please join keynote speaker Thomas R. Nides, Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources, for a discussion of the Obama administration’s national security budget for the United States. Deputy Nides has been at the forefront of pushing for new, innovative budget measures for State and USAID operations.
The military-industrial complex is driving America to the poorhouse.
The United States is spending even more of its GDP on Afghanistan than did the Soviet Union.
As President Obama asks Republicans to cut “sacred cows” from the budget and make security budget cuts, report discusses ways to shift our security resources.
Tension between President Obama and Secretary of Defense Gates over military spending may have been scripted.
How on earth do you get a bipartisan consensus against cuts and for stimulus? Call it the defense budget.
Dick Cheney was right — about one thing.
Washington seeks to beat Europe to the punch on the sale of jets to Bulgaria.
Washington and other NATO states share concerns about recent Russian defense spending.