Reuters – President Barack Obama sent Congress a $671 billion defense budget on Monday with $13 billion in program cancellations and a smaller war budget that drew immediate fire from a divided Congress. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – The Pentagon on Monday proposed a reduced defense budget for the first time since the September 11 attacks, finding savings in the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – The Pentagon on Monday proposed a reduced defense budget for the first time since the September 11 attacks, finding savings in the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq. Read the rest of this entry »
AP – President Barack Obama will send Congress on Monday a $3 trillion-plus budget for 2012 that promises $1.1 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade by freezing many domestic programs for five years, trimming military spending and limiting tax deductions for the wealthy. Read the rest of this entry »
Reuters – The Israeli cabinet on Sunday ratified the appointment of a new armed forces chief after Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s first choice was withdrawn over a property scandal. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – The “war on terror” prison at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is “one of the finest prison systems in the world,” former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »