The expected shift in Pentagon weapon spending after Fiscal Year 2021 presents a opportunity for the next administration “to make sure those programs are in alignment with their strategy,” a senior defense-budget analyst Wednesday said. Read More
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Britain’s Anti-ISIS Strategy: More Air Strikes in Syria , No Ground Troops
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter and British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon conduct a joint news conference at the Pentagon Dec. 11, 2015. DoD Photo
Britain’s Minister of Defense detailed steps his government is taking to show it is “bringing the full force of the Royal Air Force to bear” on the Islamic State and that it is a nation planning to invest more than $265 billion on new military hardware over the next decade to remain a world power. Read More
Panel Suggests Pentagon Quadrennial Defense Review Changes to Senate
A panel of former U.S. defense and national security officials told a Senate panel the Pentagon’s key public strategy document — the Quadrennial Defense Review — may work better as a secret report. Read More
Pentagon Comptroller McCord: New 2-Year Budget Deal Helps Now Without Hurting In 2020s
U.S. Capitol on July 31, 2015, NASA Photo
The Defense Department is about three weeks from finalizing its Fiscal Year 2017 budget request and is coordinating with Congress on a final 2016 spending bill now that a two-year budget deal is in place, DoD Comptroller Mike McCord said Monday at a Center for Strategic and International Studies event. Read More
Heritage Panel Calls for Military Healthcare Reform
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With the chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees agreeing to take on the military healthcare system in next year’s budget, a former Pentagon comptroller said the recommended changes the panels will consider would “protect the family” while the Defense Department’s plans would only increase co-pays and reduce benefits. Read More
Essay: Mistakes Are Not War Crimes
In this photograph released by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) on October 3, 2015, fires burn in part of the MSF hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz after it was hit by an air strike. MSF Photo
Let’s get one thing straight: Accidents are not war crimes. Unintentional or collateral damage does not constitute a war crime, even when there are noncombatant deaths. The advent of precision weapons has fostered an unrealistic expectation regarding the applications of military force, which is substantially at odds with the reality of combat. Read More
Heritage Panel Offers Defense Acquisition Reform Ideas
“Reform is absolutely necessary” because “every dollar we waste is another dollar not spent on missions,” a senior research fellow at the National Defense University told attendees at forum looking at how to make the Pentagon more efficient and effective in the 21st century. Read More
Panel Advocates Reducing Number of U.S. Combatant Commands, Staff Size
Cutting the size of staffs, from the combatant commands to the services to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), and scaling back the number of combatant commands are ways to shape the Pentagon for future roles and missions, a panel of national security experts told the Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday. Read More
Document: Congressional Budget Office Report on Navy’s 2016 Shipbuilding Plan
The following is the Congressional Budget Office’s Analysis of the Navy’s Fiscal Year 2016 Shipbuilding Plan, released on Oct. 29, 2015. Read More
Defense Officials Tell Congress Rules of Cyber Warfare Far From Settled
Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and NSA Director Adm. Mike Rogers at a Sept. 29, 2015 Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on cyber warfare. CSPAN Image
The United States’ adversaries see cyber warfare as a potential American vulnerability in a military engagement, the Pentagon’s number two civilian told the House Armed Services Committee Wednesday. Read More
