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Take a Deep Breath, Pentagon. Your Budget Is Safe.
Army Secretary John McHugh looked troubled during breakfast. The Defense Department is steeling for budget cuts above the $450 billion it’s already chopped out of its ten-year budget projections, and...
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Fight To Stop ‘Automatic’ Defense Cuts Starts In 5… 4…
Updated 4:55 p.m. and again at 7:05 p.m. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s apocalypse is now. A congressional “super-committee” designed to cut the deficit has announced its failure. The embittered...
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House Defense Chief to Boehner, Pentagon: You Suck
Rep. Buck McKeon, the chairman of the House Armed Services committee, absolutely hates cutting the defense budget -- especially when the Pentagon gets cut as part of a high-stakes deficit bill that he...
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Every Military Program Slashed 9.4% If ‘Automatic’ Cuts Kick In
Nearly every defense program, the sensible ones and stupid ones alike, will be cut the same if a plan passed by Congress and signed by the President comes to pass.
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Someone Needs to Be Elected Tonight or We’re Doomed
The differences between President Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney? On national security, you need microscopes to find them. Probably the only thing that can unmoor U.S. foreign policy tonight is not knowing...
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Inside the Navy’s Big Aircraft-Carrier Budget Gamble
The Navy is dealing with the military's impending budget fiasco by putting its aircraft carriers on the firing line. It's unexpected, but it might actually be a smart move -- if Congress cancels the...
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Navy Tweets How Budget Cuts Will Sink Its Fleet, Ground Its Planes
What do you do when forthcoming budget cuts threaten your routine military operations? If you're the Navy, you start frantically tweeting your contingency plans.
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Army’s Demonic Numbers for Budget Cuts: 6, 6, and 6
The entire U.S. military is terrified of the impending budget cuts scheduled to hit Friday. But the Army thinks the cuts are demonic.
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Budget Cuts Will Mean Delays for Burials at Arlington Cemetery
This impending cut to the defense budget isn't abstract: the Army expects looming budget cuts to mean fewer funerals and longer wait times for burial at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Forget Budget Cuts — Air Force Is Ready for Some (Fantasy) Football
It's supposed to be a time of smaller military budgets. But the Air Force is seeing if it can pay someone to set up a fantasy football league for it.
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