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Having been away for the past week, it’s nice to come back and see nothing on the looming defense-budget battle front has gotten any better, despite the iceberg of sequestration looming ahead of the USS Pentagon. In fact, it has gotten worse: – House Armed Services Committee chairman Howard McKeon sent a letter to Defense [...]
– Defense Secretary Leon Panetta at Fort Benning, Ga., on Friday. He acknowledged Marines urinating on Taliban corpses or soldiers posing with the mangled bodies of suicide bombers are “a very, very small percentage of the great work that our men and women do every day across the world.” But, he added, “they show a [...]
There are basically three reasons to cancel an acquisition program. In no particular order, the reasons are: We can’t afford it. We don’t need it. It doesn’t work. This means Defense Department leaders have to continually ask three important questions throughout the development of a new military system:
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta declared Wednesday that “our strategy is right, our strategy is working, and if we stick to it, we can achieve the mission of establishing an Afghanistan that can secure and govern itself, and never again become a safe haven for terrorists to plan attacks on our country or any other country.” [...]
A new batch of grisly and disgusting battlefield-trophy photographs surfaced in the Los Angeles Times Wednesday morning, showing. They show, among other things, U.S. troops and their Afghan allies posing with the remains of a suicide bomber. The Pentagon has tried to get out in front of this by issuing a – surprise! – statement [...]
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is checking out Kayak or Orbitz — or whatever is defense secretaries check — to see if there is a cheaper way to get home for the weekend. All this because of a recent news story noting he has spent $860,000 jetting between Washington and California since becoming defense secretary last [...]
Part of the reason that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta fears that sequestration – the budget axe slated to chop another $500 billion or so out of the military over the coming decade if Congress can’t get its act together – is how each side is welded to its will-not-budge goals. Of course, he was speaking [...]
– Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, describing the war in Afghanistan to a Canadian interviewer Monday
Afghan soldiers listen via translator to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta at Camp Leatherneck in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday. They, as well as their U.S. and allied comrades, were disarmed before Panetta arrived. The unusual decision has generated a lot of controversy among Marines.
Nothing raises lawmakers’ hackles like Pentagon officials saying they need international support before going to war, as Chris Lawrence explains over at CNN’s Security Clearance blog. Their gripes would have more grip if they stepped up to the plate and declared war when the nation sends its troops into harm’s way, instead of subcontracting such [...]
