Initial Fiscal Year 2014 Defense Budget Analysis | Nukes of Hazard Blog
By Laicie Heeley The President’s fiscal year 2014 defense request contains a “placeholder” for war funding, but in fact, the entire budget request itself should be considered a placeholder given...
View ArticlePentagon Math, Hagel, and the President’s Budget | POGO Blog
By Ben Freeman Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey, and Department of Defense (DoD) Comptroller Robert Hale testified before the House Armed...
View ArticleMirage Across the Potomac | Foreign Policy
BY GORDON ADAMS Boy, that upcoming Strategic Choices and Management Review (or “Scammer,” in Pentagon speak) better be good. Because right now, the Pentagon’s new FY 2014 budget submission perpetuates...
View Article2014 DoD budget a step toward ‘grand bargain’ | Federal Times
By JOHN T. BENNETT WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s 2014 Pentagon budget request ignores sequestration. Experts call it a purely political document. It’s going nowhere — and that’s the plan....
View Article2014 DoD budget a step toward ‘grand bargain’ | Federal Times
By JOHN T. BENNETT WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s 2014 Pentagon budget request ignores sequestration. Experts call it a purely political document. It’s going nowhere — and that’s the plan....
View ArticleDetermining DOD Spending for FY ’14 Could Be Repeat of Current Year |...
The Obama administration’s decision to deliver a fiscal 2014 budget request that ignores the $52 billion sequester cut slated to be imposed on defense spending next year leaves it uncertain...
View ArticleTreading Water: National Security in the FY14 Budget | Spotlight | The...
By Russell Rumbaugh President Obama’s budget request was released last week with some dramatic proposals, including raising taxes and changing how Social Security is calculated. The dramatic changes...
View ArticleChanneling Bush’s Budget Tricks | Foreign Policy
BY GORDON ADAMS The war budget is late and that could mean trouble. One of the less-discussed elements of the administration’s defense budget request is the delay in submitting a...
View ArticleHagel’s Budget: Where’s The Beef In Reform Efforts, Weapons Buys? | AOL Defense
By Mackenzie Eaglen In a town full of hot air, speeches are a dime a dozen. But money still talks. So let’s compare the new Secretary of Defense’s policy agenda...
View ArticleOn Defense Budget, Army Fighting Congress | National Taxpayers Union
By Michael Tasselmyer If it was up to General Ray Odierno, Congress wouldn’t allocate $436 million towards building and upgrading new Abrams tanks. “[W]e would use that money in a...
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