Reuters – A Senate panel on Tuesday approved defense spending of about $630 billion for the 2012 fiscal year, freezing the Pentagon’s base budget at $513 billion for a second straight year while seeking nearly $118 billion for U.S. wars abroad. Read the rest of this entry »
AP – Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says he kept the Pentagon open after a terrorist attack 10 years ago today to send a message. Read the rest of this entry »
Reuters – When it comes to the tricky political calculus of deciding how many U.S. troops to keep in Iraq, President Barack Obama may truly have no good options. Read the rest of this entry »
Reuters – On the first day of work on Thursday for a “super committee” charged with finding $1.2 trillion in new government savings, a member of the panel threatened to quit if defense spending cuts are discussed, underscoring the difficulties ahead. Read the rest of this entry »
Reuters – Senator Jon Kyl, a Republican member of the “super committee” deficit-reduction panel in Congress on Thursday said he would quit the panel if new defense spending cuts are considered. Read the rest of this entry »
AP – An AWOL Navy corpsman turned himself in Wednesday after leaving a threatening note claiming he planted bombs at a nearby Southern California high school in a hoax that prompted administrators to order students out of the building on the first day of classes. Read the rest of this entry »
Reuters – The Pentagon on Wednesday raised the alert level at military bases, most of them domestic, ahead of the 10th anniversary commemorations of the September 11, 2001, attacks on Sunday. Read the rest of this entry »