Is U.S. Military Preparedness Being 'Killed' By U.S. Budget Cuts?

USS Ronald Reagan and USS Preble during straits training exercise. PACIFIC OCEAN (Nov. 1, 2010) The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN ...

A Historical Look On The Consequences Of Cutting Past U.S. Defense Budgets

Paratroopers prepare to hook up an M119A2 105mm howitzer to a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during air assault training on Fort Bragg, N.C., F...

Ex-Generals Make The Case For Deep U.S. Defense Cuts

Generals: Get Real And Cut Pentagon Spending -- Robert G. Gard and John Johns, Special To CNN (CNN) -- A strong U.S. military is indispensab...

Sequestration’s Defense Cuts Becoming More Real With Each Passing Day

Sequestration’s Defense Cuts Loom -- Max Boot, Commentary The newspapers are full of articles about negotiations over tax hikes and spending...

The Case For Shrinking The US Defense Budget

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta congratulates Robert M. Gates, who served as the 22nd defense secretary, at the unveiling of Gates' po...

What's Next For The U.S. Military

President Barack Obama delivers remarks to troops at Fort Campbell, Ky., May 6, 2011. Vice President Joe Biden stands at left. Army.mil What...

How Much Military Can You Buy For $720 Billion A Year?

GOP nominee Mitt Romney at the Virginia Military Institute October 8, 2012. ( Shannon Stapleton/Courtesy Reuters ) The 4 Percent Solution: H...

U.S. Defense Cuts?

What Defense Cuts? -- Mark Thompson, Time The fear-mongering about impending defense cuts is becoming deafening. Yet even if sequestration h...

How To Head Off Deep US Defense Budget Cuts

Sailors and Marines on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp enjoy a fireworks display during Fleet Week 2012 in Boston, J...

A Commentary On How The Budget-Cutting 'Doomsday Machine' Endangers Us

Eviscerating American Defense -- By Frank J. Gaffney Jr., The Washington Times Budget-cutting ‘doomsday machine’ endangers us. As with his c...

A Report Card On The 2013 Defense Budget

The Fiscal Year 2013 Defense Budget: A Report Card -- Center For American Progress Grading the Pentagon’s Latest Budget Request. The Obama a...

How Cutting Unnecessary Nuclear Weapons Programs Can Slash The Defense Budget (Maybe)

Two missile maintenance crewmen perform an electrical check on an LGM-30F Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in its sil...

The Pentagon Is Now Bracing For The Budget Cutting Storm

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Tyler Long sets a bubble perimeter in a rigid hull inflatable boat during a training exercise aboard the g...

How Pentagon Budget Cuts Will Impact R&D Programs

Doomsday For Defense? -- Arthur Herman, New York Post After supercommittee’s failure. The news last week from the Pentagon’s supersecret Def...

Should The Strategy Come After Defense Is Cut, Or Before?

Jewel Samad / AFP via Getty Images Cut Defense Now, Build Strategy Later -- Harvey Sapolsky, Aol Defense With defense spending cuts looming...

A Viewpoint On The Consequences Of Cutting The Defense Budget

Paratroopers charge through the woods during a frontal attack on an insurgent position during a mountain training exercise on Camp Frank D. ...

Is Defense Budget-Cutting ‘Hysteria’ Reaching A Peak?

Has Budget-Cutting ‘Hysteria’ Reached Its Peak? -- DoD Buzz If Washington cuts back defense spending, a man might come to your house, ring y...

Two Opposing Views On Cutting The U.S. Defense Budget

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, address the media during a press confere...

After Debt Deal, What Will America's Defense Posture Look Like?

What Could Austerity America’s Defense Posture Look Like? -- DoD Buzz The Pentagon is staring at the prospect of as much as $850 billion in ...

The Debt Crisis And Its Impact On U.S. Foreign Policy And Its Military

U.S. Grand Strategy And The Debt Crisis -- Christopher A. Preble, The National Interest There has been a fair amount of wailing and gnashing...