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We’re cutting close to $500 billion out of the next decade’s defense spending. Then there’s another $500 billion to come if sequestration occurs next January because Congress can’t come up with $1.2 trillion in cuts or tax hikes, or some combo of both, over the coming decade. That prospect of $1 trillion coming out of [...]
Army General Martin Dempsey (right), chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, watches a bottlenose dolphin in San Diego on Monday. He was touring the Navy’s Marine Mammal Program with sailors from Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 1. The program trains the dolphins to locate and mark mines.
Testifying before Congress repeatedly on the defense budget is tough work. “I’ve been in hearings for the last three days — shit, I think I should get some kind of award going through that crap,” Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told airmen in Louisiana on Friday. “I mean, I told General [Marty] Dempsey [chairman of the [...]
– The key thesis of the new Joint Operational Access Concept (JOAC) — here’s betting it will be pronounced JOE-ak and not Joke — from Army General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (and, amazingly, holder of a master’s degree in English from Duke). h/t Abu Muqawama
On Thursday, President Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta released what they called their Defense Strategic Guidance – think of it as the guardrails that guide the U.S. military down the interstate highway of war. Unfortunately, they’re not going to tell us what the cars on that highway look like until the Administration releases its [...]
I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member. The sentiment is usually attributed to Groucho Marx, but as of this week it works for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, too.
– Army General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, on Iran’s alleged nuclear ambitions, on CNN
“We’ve paid a great price here,” Army General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, said as the U.S. wrapped up its mission in Iraq on Thursday. “And it has been a price worth paying.” This led to a piquant comment from former long-time Pentagon intelligence analyst John McCreary, who took a night off from [...]
It’s not a good thing when the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff visits Europe and it leads to a story like this from his own press shop: It’s not his emphatic answer that counts, of course; it’s the fact that he felt obligated to state, in response to a question, that the [...]
