Tag: Pentagon

The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, background, sails beside the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush in the Persian Gulf. (AP/U.S. Navy, Brian Stephens)

Resourcing relevance

Jed Babbin · February 2, 2015 10:00 am

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A radical view of defense budget cuts

Douglas Feith · February 2, 2015 10:00 am

Cost figures related to closing Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota are shown before the Base Closure and Realignment Commission voted to save the base. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Why Congress doesn’t want another BRAC round

Tara Copp · February 2, 2015 10:00 am

The flight line behind U. S. Navy Captain Greg McWherter's Blue Angels jet erupts in flames during a pyrotechnics display in a simulated attack by an A-10 Thunderbolt during the Guardians of Freedom Airshow at the Lincoln Air Park. (AP/FRANCIS GARDLER / Lincoln Journa, Lincoln Journal Star)

Funding a balanced force

Christopher Preble · February 2, 2015 10:00 am

National Security

It’s Groundhog Day for the defense budget

Tara Copp · February 1, 2015 10:00 am

A U.S. Marine carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of Marine Lance Cpl. Dale W. Means, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)

Obama’s Taliban tools and treachery

Michelle Malkin · January 30, 2015 8:38 pm

Rescue workers try to pull out a piece of an exploded Grad missile outside an apartment building in Vostochniy district of Mariupol, Eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015. The Ukrainian president called the blitz a terrorist attack and NATO and the U.S. demanded that Russia stop supporting the rebels. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

National Security

U.S. ups the ante against Russia

Tara Copp · January 30, 2015 10:00 am

Chinese soldiers march after the inspection of the honor guard during a welcome ceremony at PLA Headquarters in Beijing, China, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel, Pool)

National Security

U.S., China to hold defense talks

Tara Copp · January 29, 2015 10:07 pm

The commission tasked with finding ways to overhaul expensive military pay and compensation recommended allowing service members to enroll in a thrift savings plan, among 15 suggestions it presented Thursday. (iStock Photo)

National Security

Panel greenlights military retirement reforms

Tara Copp · January 29, 2015 6:35 pm

State Department: ‘Russian Military Has a Significant Presence in Ukraine’

Jeryl Bier · January 29, 2015 4:37 pm

National Security

Hagel’s tenure: A rough start, a rough finish

Tara Copp · January 29, 2015 10:03 am

The sixth-generation fighter would be a follow-on to the Air Forceâs F-22 Raptor (shown) and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)

National Security

Pentagon asks Congress for sixth-generation fighter plane

Tara Copp · January 28, 2015 4:31 pm