Defense cuts
PolitiFact busted, again
Politifact, the nominally non-partisan “fact checker” which takes a statement by a politician, surveys a group of “experts” of their own choosing and then coughs up a “truth-o-meter” score, has landed in hot water, again. Previously it was when the liberal media establishment got all asshurt over Politifact calling the claim that Republicans were trying […]
Shrinking the Corps for its own sake?
Marine Corps Maj Peter J. Munson, a C-130 driver, Naval Postgraduate School alum and self-proclaimed Middle East expert, put forward a “right sizing” argument in the Marine Corps Gazette today calling for the Corps to shrink down even farther in order to stay relevant. The core of his understanding of the proper role of the […]
Laying the political groundwork for devastating security disinvestment and defense sector job cuts
They’re coming. They’re real. After the initial rounds of cuts initiated by the Democrats and then the bi-partisan failure to insulate our national defense from indiscriminate slash and burn budgeting we are now on the precipice of the enfeebled 90’s military with 21st century commitments and enemies. The cynical tilling of the field for these […]
Panetta: Our post-cuts military a “spoiler” force
The front page of my New York Times greeted me this morning with this headline above the fold: Panetta to Offer Strategy Cutting Military Oh, good. Panetta, who I really don’t think is all that bad a guy, testified in November that forcing the military to take an additional $500 some billion cut, past the […]
The looming Obama/Paul military massacre (Part 1)
An unholy alliance has been formed in Washington D.C. Libertarian Republicans and liberal Democrats are moving to both destroy the military and cut off at the knees the families who have given the most this past decade. The first person to sound the alram in the mass media was former President George W. Bush’s Ambassador […]
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