Defense Drumbeats

May 17, 2012 Defense Drumbeat

"Obama in Kabul: The President gives his first major Afghan remarks since June."
Wall Street Journal editorial board
May 2, 2012

May 17, 2012 Defense Drumbeat
 

Thirty one military service and veterans organizations urged Congress this week save America’s Armed Forces from the “catastrophic impact that sequestration would have on the defense budget and future national security.” 

May 17, 2012 Defense Drumbeat

This week, Defending Defense, a joint initiative of the American Enterprise Institute, Foreign Policy Initiative, and the Heritage Foundation, urged Congress to act immediately to stop sequestration. The $1 trillion in cuts resulting from sequestrations would pose an unacceptable risk to national security and to our industrial base.

May 17, 2012 Defense Drumbeat

By Reps. Buck McKeon and Paul Ryan
Last year, as the federal government approached a limit on how much it could legally borrow, the Obama administration asked Congress to rubber-stamp an increase in the government's borrowing authority without any spending cuts to match.

May 17, 2012 Defense Drumbeat

Fact Sheet: TRICARE and the FY13 NDAA

May 17, 2012 Defense Drumbeat

One signatory of a letter to House Armed Services Committee Chairman, Rep. Buck McKeon, Charles "Cully" Stimson appeared on FOX News today to express his concerns about the pending Smith-Amash amendment on extending constitutional protections to foreign terrorist detainees.

May 17, 2012 Defense Drumbeat

BY: Adam Kredo
Washington Free Beacon
May 16, 2012 2:12 pm

Former government attorneys and defense experts fear that foreign terrorists could capitalize on a new House proposal that would afford them full protection under the U.S. legal system, potentially spurring a domestic influx of would-be terrorists who may seek to exploit the legal loophole.

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