The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
It’s Not Just the Politicians Who Have Cheapened the Defense Debate Winslow Wheeler I recall from early in my career when Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-AZ) took to the floor of the Senate to attack the allegedly scurrilous report that the B-1 bomber would cost as much as $60 million a copy: in truth, it turned out …
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The following is a translation of “buying votes”……Not sure how this will sustain our national defense either……or how much of the money we borrowed and then granted to them in foreign military assistance! Analysis: U.S. fighter sales soar in time for campaign (Reuters) – Booming Middle East purchases of U.S. fighter jets will be a …
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When a system is so slosh with money that it does not know what its costs are, it is time to take serious action. But what do you do when no one cares? The US Air Force misreports, even to itself (and to Congress and OSD), the cost to operate and support its own aircraft. …
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For years and years, advocates of big defense spending have argued there is a major economic benefit — jobs. These claims are ever more strident now because of high unemployment and threats to further growth in the defense budget. Hearing the footsteps on the unaffordable, underperforming F-35, Lockheed, among others, touts the jobs they pretend the program creates. The defense …
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All prior RECAPs plus Series CLOSED below the line. Updated 2 August 2013.
Secretary of Defense Panetta used an invitation to the National War College as an opportunity to lobby against cutting the defense budget more than the $350 billion he has already agreed to. In the absence of any informed or probing questions, Panetta’s extreme rhetoric has also oozed into new Washington DC hysteria resulting from reports …
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Why the Pentagon Is Always Underfunded CHUCK SPINNEY, The Blaster, July 19, 2011 Cap Ferrat, France The courtiers in the Hall of Mirrors that is Versailles on the Potomac are lining up to give Leon Panetta advice on how to manage the Pentagon in the coming era of budget “constraints.” Most of this wisdom takes the form …
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