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Battleland comrades Mackenzie Eaglen (defense analyst at the Heritage Foundation) and Gordon Adams (former defense chief at the Office of Management and Budget, …
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The Conservative Political Action Conference is rolling into Washington on Thursday, and you can feel a change in the air on military matters.
Sure, Battleland’s own Mackenzie Eaglen will be on a panel arguing for more:
…but retired Army office Doug MacGregor will be a one-man band (hey, you gotta start somewhere) arguing …
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Fellow Battleland contributor Mackenzie Eaglen of the Heritage Foundation argued last week in a Defense Daily article that the “Super Congress” is likely to side with cutting defense deeply rather than increase government revenue through tax increases to pay for current levels of defense spending (the biggest part of the discretionary …
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The Pentagon unveiled its proposed budget for the 2014 fiscal year, beginning Oct. 1, and elected to seek $52 billion – about 10% — more than it is going to be allowed to spend under current law.
The decision to seek the …
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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel sketched out his plans for building a leaner Pentagon on Wednesday — and made some cogent observations on what needs to be done to square U.S. defense plans with U.S. fiscal reality — but he based …
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Here at Battleland, we take pride in airing both sides of the issue, from Mackenzie “F-15 Strike” Eaglen on one side of the military-might debate to Winslow Wheeler-Dealer on the other.
Amid all the doom about looming sequestration, we’d like to arm you with an important chart – no matter what side of the debate you’re on.
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Politicians can shrug off the congressional Super Committee’s failure to agree on meaningful deficit reduction. To them, it’s just another budget gimmick that didn’t pan out. But for the U.S. military, the Super Committee …
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Departing defense secretary Robert Gates is the 10th military chief I have covered since Harold Brown was running Jimmy Carter’s Pentagon. After a private dinner at the White House on Wednesday night, and a final ruffles and flourishes sendoff at the Pentagon on Thursday, Gates will fly off for his home in Washington state and never …
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Scored a hat trick today on Battleland: had a left-leaner (Gordon Adams, Pentagon czar at OMB during Clinton I) commenting on Mackenzie Eaglen‘s post (she’s from the rightward Heritage Foundation, and before that with quasi-GOPer Susan Collins, senator of Maine), topped off by Nick Schwellenbach, defense pro at the stridently …
