Search Results for “defense budget” – Page 37

2011/02/082011/02/08

Why Boeing is Imploding–Spinney, Sprey, & Reality vs Political Engineering & Government Spec Cost Plus

Below are three separate contributions: Spinney on Sprey; Sprey on Boeing; and Seattle Times on Boeing. CHUCK SPINNEY SOUNDS OFF President Obama says that restoring America’s competitiveness is one of his top priorities. Yet under his watch, deindustrialization, financialization, and globalization continue without interruption. Many advocates of defense spending argue that spinoffs from the Pentagon’s …

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2011/01/302011/01/30

Search: four classes of threats

Sorry about the crummy search results. Here are the two core graphics plus some related references. We cannot say enough good things about the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) of the U.S. Army. If Army flag officers paid more attention to the sound thinking coming out of there, and kept their integrity in their dealings with …

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2011/01/302011/02/13

Women of Washington–The Lunacy Continues

(1) This **could** be DoD’s near-term future; (2) honestly have not heard anything bad about her; (3) my principal concern is that she has no personal military experience, which I personally think should be mandatory for any SECDEF. Chuck Spinney Sends: Truely nuts. The article is a puff piece about an incompetent fraud who happens …

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2011/01/262011/01/26

David Ignatius Loves Bob Gates

David Ignatius, Washington Post 26 January 2011 Ike was right: Defense spending must be cut Core paragraph: President Obama has the right team in place to begin this strategic downsizing of the defense budget. Gates has been an outspoken advocate of cutting programs we can’t afford, and he has strong backing from Adm. Mike Mullen …

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2011/01/152011/01/15

1961-2011: 50 Years of The Military-Industrial Complex

It’s a good think Ike is dead… else he would realize his nightmare survived. Chuck Newsday January 13, 2011 Pg. 34 The Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex Eisenhower warned against the influence of arms production, but did we listen? By Bob Keeler EXTRACT: Now, the deficit has caused some unexpected voices to say, ever so softly, that everything …

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2010/12/232010/12/23

Journal: Can the US Economy Recover?

How Can the Economy Recover? DECEMBER 23, 2010 Jeff Madrick Seeds of Destruction: Why the Path to Economic Ruin Runs Through Washington, and How to Reclaim American Prosperity by Glenn Hubbard and Peter Navarro FT Press, 266 pp., $26.99 Capitalism 4.0: The Birth of a New Economy in the Aftermath of Crisis by Anatole Kaletsky …

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2010/12/15

Journal: US Army Civil Affairs Left for Dead…

14 December 2010 CRYTOME US Army Starving its Civil Affairs Functions: Prefers New Age HTS, PRT’s by John Stanton “If the expansion of the Human Terrain System gains traction at TRADOC it could kill any efforts to develop a cultural expertise construct by the Civil Affairs community, specifically the Civil Affairs Proponent at USA JFK …

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