Tag: Defense Spending

National Security

More troops, money to fight Islamic State in Iraq

Charles Hoskinson · November 7, 2014 11:18 pm

In this Friday, Oct. 24, 2014 photo released by the U.S. Navy, an aircraft lands on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush on the Persian Gulf. The aircraft carrier and aircrafts are deployed as part of operations targeting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Brian Stephens)

Republican Senate won’t make much difference on national security

Charles Hoskinson · November 5, 2014 10:00 am

U.S. Marines, from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, patrol in the town of Garmser in Helmand Province of Afghanistan Monday, July 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

A plea for a strong, smart, affordable national defense

Harlan Ullman · November 3, 2014 10:00 am

U.S. nuclear arsenal due for modernization

Charles Hoskinson · October 27, 2014 9:00 am

Smoke and flames from an airstrike by the US-led coalition rise in Kobani, Syria, as seen from a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border, Monday, Oct. 20, 2014 Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, and its surrounding areas, has been under assault by extremists of the Islamic State group since mid-September and is being defended by Kurdish fighters. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

National Security

Current cost of ‘Inherent Resolve’: $424 million

Kelly Cohen · October 22, 2014 11:36 am

Army rolls out bid to stay relevant

Charles Hoskinson · October 20, 2014 9:00 am

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Pentagon lacks proper documentation of fair prices on $70 billion in contracts

Mark Tapscott · October 10, 2014 6:00 pm

U.S Marines disembark upon their arrival at the Roberts International airport in Monrovia, Liberia, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014. Six U.S. military planes arrived Thursday at the epicenter of the Ebola crisis, carrying more aid and American Marines into Liberia, the country hardest hit by the deadly disease that has devastated West Africa and stirred anxiety across a fearful world. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

House approves money to combat Ebola in Africa

Susan Ferrechio · October 9, 2014 9:21 pm

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Beltway Confidential

Defense Department to store sensitive documents in the cloud

Paul Gonzalez · October 9, 2014 8:43 pm

President Barack Obama attends a meeting with senior military leadership including Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey at the Pentagon on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama: Congress should ‘work with us’ to avoid sequestration cuts to defense

Charles Hoskinson · October 8, 2014 11:06 pm

"We've got to fund defense first," Jindal said. (Getty images/Win McNamee)

Jindal’s prescription for U.S. defense may be hard even for GOP to swallow

Charles Hoskinson · October 7, 2014 9:04 am

Fewer than 110 members of the current Congress have served in uniform, and that compares to a high of approximately 400 in the mid-1970s as the "Greatest Generation" made its way from battlefields to Capitol Hill. (iStock)

Congress to get needed injection of members with military experience

Hugh Hewitt · October 5, 2014 9:00 pm