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The defense budget is big. The only thing more costly than spending $700 billion on national security is to not provide that funding. (iStock)
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Congress’ budgetary uncertainty is harming the troops

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President Trump delivered a speech to the U.S. troops at the U.S. Yokota Air Base, on the outskirts of Tokyo, on Sunday. Trump arrived in Japan Sunday on a five-nation trip to Asia, his second extended foreign trip since taking office and his first to Asia. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
National Security

Trump asks Congress for $6 billion for missile defense, ship repair, Asia strategy

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Defense Secretary Jim Mattis sent a letter to the House and Senate armed services committees that Pentagon staff are calling the
National Security

Jim Mattis says Senate bill hamstrings US cyber action

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National Security

Mac Thornberry: The US should not ‘completely’ pull out of Iran nuclear deal

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House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, said a string of military mishaps this year has killed roughly the same number of troops as victims in the Las Vegas shooting. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
National Security

Mac Thornberry: Roughly same number of troops killed in mishaps as shot in Las Vegas

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National Security

Army asks House to halt troubled $6 billion wireless program

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Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., took to the Senate floor last week still stinging from political defeat.
Foreign Policy

Did Democrats just rescue defense spending caps?

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Thornberry has blamed spending caps and delayed defense budgets, as well as the newest continuing budget resolution approved this month, for putting military service members at greater risk. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
National Security

Mac Thornberry: Washington partly to blame for new rash of deadly military accidents

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A review by the Government Accountability Office has found widespread, systemic problems in the U.S. Navy ships that are based in foreign ports, which it says has resulted in
National Security

Navy ships plagued by overworked, undertrained crews, GAO finds

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The White House gets the additional troops in its proclaimed buildup by calculating the difference between those projections of a shrinking future force by Obama to its plans for the size of the military. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)
National Security

Adam Smith on Afghanistan strategy: ‘This is not a plan’

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