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2014/02/142014/02/14

Winslow Wheeler: Who Really Runs the Pentagon?

It’s not Chuck Hagel. I explain in a commentary at Foreign Policy at http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/02/13/the_men_who_really_run_the_pentagon_chuck_hagel, and below. The Men Who Really Run the Pentagon Bob Gates wrestled the defense budget back from the Joint Chiefs. Chuck Hagel is handing it back. Winslow Wheeler Winslow T. Wheeler is the director of the Straus Military Reform Project at …

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2014/01/162014/01/16

WInslow Wheeler: Congressional Deception on Pentagon Pork [PBI: Until DoD Down to $400B a Year, 50% Waste is Order of the Day]

“Omnibus” Information and Commentary Paper: What Did the Appropriators Really Do to Defense Spending? Bottom line: At $600B plus, DoD is a pig — easily 40% waste. Summary of Findings:

2014/01/02

Marcus Aurelius: Pentagon Obsesses on Sexual Political Correctness, Providing for the Common Defense an Afterthought

Nothing to dispute here. We haven’t seen a National Security Strategy or National Military Strategy in years. The sexual assault issue is virtually all-consuming. My own two-star, one of the Army’s better flag-level intellects, will soon (or may already have) take charge of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Reporting program at OSD level. In fairness, …

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2013/12/222013/12/22

Berto Jongman: Pentagon’s Top Three Threats

Pentagon’s top three threats in the ‘deep future’ What sorts of threats will the US military face in the “deep future”? That was the topic of a panel at the Association of the US Army (AUSA) conference this week, the heavily attended annual trade show that draws top Pentagon officials and defense contractors. It’s a …

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2013/12/142013/12/14

David Swanson: Peace in the Pentagon?

Peace in the Pentagon I’m a huge fan of peace studies as an academic discipline that should be spread into every corner of what we call, with sometimes unclear justification, our education system. But often peace studies, like other disciplines, manages to study only those far from home, and to study them with a certain …

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2013/11/132013/11/13

Marcus Aurelius: Pentagon Fiscal Chief “Nervous” + DoD Transformation RECAP

Pentagon fiscal chief Robert Hale: ‘I am nervous’ “Frankly, I am nervous,” says Robert Hale, the Pentagon’s comptroller. And with reason. A month and half into the new fiscal year, Congress can’t seem to decide between what are three, wildly different scenarios for Hale’s world in 2014. The House endorsed most of President Barack Obama’s …

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2013/11/12

Steve Aftergood: Pentagon Drone Program Cut in Half, New Military Doctrine

PENTAGON DRONE PROGRAMS TAPER OFF, AND NEW MIL DOCTRINE The Department of Defense budget for research and procurement of unmanned aerial systems (UAS), or drones, is on a distinctly downward slope. The FY 2014 budget request included $2.3 billion for research, development, and procurement of unmanned aerial systems, a decrease of $1.1 billion from the …

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