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Winslow Wheeler: Hill Hearing on Defense Backs Into the Truth

Foreign Policy is running my description of the hearing that Buck McKeon put on yesterday with Lockheed-Martin and a cast of lesser, not entirely cooperative, other characters.  Find my analysis at http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/07/19/hard_of_hearing?print=yes&hidecomments=yes&page=full, and below: Hard of Hearing Why the House’s attempt to save defense spending might flop. BY WINSLOW T. WHEELER | JULY 19, 2012 It …

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Reference: Defense and Energy Deficit Reduction: $688 Billion

POGO Source Page, May 8, 2012 Wasteful Spending in the Department of Defense Budget Wasteful Spending on Nuclear Weapons Programs Service Contracts Conclusion Endnotes Americans are tightening their belts, and it’s time for the U.S. government to do the same. In light of the Budget Control Act of 2011 and the subsequent failure of the “Super Committee,” …

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Winslow Wheeler: Pentagon Aviation Plan Over-Budget Lacking Both Intelligence and Integrity

My analysis of DOD’s latest “30 year” (not really) Aviation Plan is running at Time’s Battleland Blog at http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/05/01/the-pentagons-million-dollar-aviation-plan/, and below.  In my judgment, the overriding revelation in this document is of the incompetence and disingenuousness of the bureaucracy in DOD that wrote it.  If you think documents like this, costing over $1 million to produce, add …

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Marcus Aurelius: General Mike Flynn to Head Defense Intelligence Agency

US Military Intelligence Critic To Lead Spy Agency By Agence France-Presse, 18 April 2012 A US general who once blasted the work of military spies in Afghanistan as “only marginally relevant” has been nominated to take over the Pentagon’s intelligence agency, officials said. The decision to name Lieutenant General Michael Flynn suggests a possible shake-up …

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Marcus Aurelius: Defense Spending Contradictions – Panetta’s Week-Ends versus TRICARE Cuts

So, proposed TRICARE fee increases are intended to cover costs of SECDEF’s weekend trips home?  Would not be surprised. CNN April 6, 2012 A $32,000 Trip Every Weekend The Situation Room (CNN), 5:00 P.M. JOE JOHNS: Imagine working in Washington Monday through Friday then flying home almost every weekend to California. That’s a weekly ritual …

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