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Buck McKeon’s A-10 Sell-Out

Supporters of the A-10 “Warthog” close air support aircraft in Washington and US combat Soldiers and Marines who have seen, and are seeing, combat in Afghanistan were stunned Monday to read about a...

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Decoding the Pentagon’s Budget Numbers

A Guide for the Perplexed More The post Decoding the Pentagon’s Budget Numbers appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

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F-22 In A Dogfight

Panetta Crimps Fighter Jet's Flight Envelope More The post F-22 In A Dogfight appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

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Brownian Motion and the Defense Budget

The Noise Over Sequestration More The post Brownian Motion and the Defense Budget appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

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How the F-35 Doubled in Price

(And Why You Knew Nothing About It) More The post How the F-35 Doubled in Price appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

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The Guardians of the Defense Budget

Why the House's Attempt to Save Defense Spending Might Go Bust More The post The Guardians of the Defense Budget appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

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Sequester, Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be

The Cuts Won't be Disastrous, But Their Mindless Application Could be Avoided More The post Sequester, Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

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Canada’s Politicians Take on the F-35

Parliamentary Lights More The post Canada’s Politicians Take on the F-35 appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

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Will Chuck Hagel Stand Up to the Drone Lobby?

Or Will He be Yet Another Victim of Pentagon Operators? More The post Will Chuck Hagel Stand Up to the Drone Lobby? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

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The Asian Pivot as a New Form of Warfare

Hagel and the Air-Sea Battle Plan More The post The Asian Pivot as a New Form of Warfare appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

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The Hagel Hearing

A Profoundly Depressing Spectacle More The post The Hagel Hearing appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

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Slimy Double-Talk About the F-35

Caveataxpayer Emptor More The post Slimy Double-Talk About the F-35 appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

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Whatever Happened to the GAO?

Why GAO's Defense of Its F-35 Investigation Worries Me Even More More The post Whatever Happened to the GAO? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

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Defense Budget: Something’s Got to Give

If Hagel Doesn't Bring in a New Mangaement Team, He'll be a Failure More The post Defense Budget: Something’s Got to Give appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

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One of Robert Gates’ More Real Legacies

A Half Million Dead Iraqis More The post One of Robert Gates’ More Real Legacies appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

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What Did the Appropriators Really Do to Defense Spending?

The Pentagon's War Pre-Text Slush Fund More The post What Did the Appropriators Really Do to Defense Spending? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

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The Men Who Really Run the Pentagon

Hint: Chuck Hagel Isn't One of Them More The post The Men Who Really Run the Pentagon appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

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America’s $1 Trillion National Security Budget

Blank Check for the Pentagon More The post America’s $1 Trillion National Security Budget appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

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An Inadequate Defense Budget?

Compared to Whom? Compared to When? More The post An Inadequate Defense Budget? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

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Re-Selling the F-35

The Latest Preposterous Claims More The post Re-Selling the F-35 appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

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Buck McKeon’s A-10 Sell-Out

The Big Ruse More The post Buck McKeon’s A-10 Sell-Out appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

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Just What Earmark “Moratorium” are They Talking About?

Last week, the House Rules Committee held hearings on the idea of bringing back earmarks.  While some have been angling for this idea for a while, the immediate prompt was from President Trump’s...

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Do the Most Severe Lockdowns Coincide to the Highest COVID-19 Death Rates?

The organization Our World in Data is running an article on the severity of government lockdown policies used to deal with the Covid-19 disease, “How Are Governments Responding to the Coronavirus...

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Did They Miss Yet Another F-35 Cost Overrun?

On Thursday, April 22, two subcommittees of the House Armed Services Committee held a joint hearing on the F-35. The hearing covered multiple F-35 cost issues, but strangely, no one discussed or asked...

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An Afghanistan Apportionment

American media and other politicians, and the people they pay to say things, are locked up tight with the demise in Afghanistan.  How could anyone let this happen?  Who’s to blame for these precipitous...

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Why the Nuclear Sub Deal Will End Badly for the Australians

The Australians complained that the French deal was growing too uncertain as regards cost, schedule and pork (the amount of work done in Australia).  Should they opt for the American sub option, their...

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Mystery Meat Congress; Clueless Mainstream Press

Pelosi and McConnell disallow unapproved legislative alternatives with parliamentary tricks: they allow a vote only if the provision is harmless, sure to support their own position or guaranteed to...

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Defiant Pentagon Hides Poor Testing Results Behind Phony Firewall

Withholding information under the guise of classification “undermine[s] our national security, as well as critical democratic objectives, by impeding our ability to share information in a timely...

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The Junior President from the State of Delaware

Two decades with four US Senators from both parties led me to the conclusion that there are three types of Members of the Senate. They come irrespective of party, ideology, gender or age. First are the...

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Is Russia the Only Country to Bomb Electrical Grids?

In the American campaign against Iraq in the 1991 First Gulf War, the US and allied attack aircraft were assigned struck 14 different targets in Iraq's electrical grid, using roughly 2,500 guided and...

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