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Navy Forced to Reschedule Carrier Strike Group Rotation Fiscal crisis begins to deliver first shocks to national security

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America’s looming fiscal crisis delivered real-world consequences last week with a pair of blows to one of the U.S. Navy’s (USN) cornerstones: carrier strike groups (CSGs).

On Wednesday, Feb. 6, …

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The NDAA and the Air Force: A Preliminary Look

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Any document with a 23-page table of contents is going to be a challenge, not just to the everyday citizen but to someone who spends time analyzing.

Exactly such a …

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Marine One, Nighthawk Two

How Does the Election Result Affect U.S. Defense? Maybe not much

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Some observers in Washington say U. S. defense policy probably wouldn’t have changed much regardless of which candidate won the election on November 6. “Military issues have an inertia all …

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The FY 2012 Defense Budget The drawdown begun

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For all the fiery debates it launched in 2011, the U.S. military’s fiscal year 2012 budget achieved reality in anticlimactic form: part of the 1,200-page Consolidated Appropriations Act, finalized in …

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FY 2013 Defense Budget Request: Cuts in Air Force Aircraft

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The Air Force says that its fiscal year 2013 budget proposal comes from an approach “that retains critical core capabilities and maintains the Air Force’s ability to rapidly respond to …

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FY 2013 Defense Budget Request Force Structure Changes A first look at cuts in force structure and personnel numbers

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For those wondering what the administration’s Strategic Guidance document meant when it discussed a smaller and leaner force structure, the Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Request Overview released today added some …

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Milpers pay

The 2012 Defense Budget: Personnel Provisions The recently passed FY 2012 defense budget cuts end strengths, trims benefits packages

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For the past 10 years, military personnel have enjoyed an expansion of benefits unrivaled in the history of the nation’s military – salary, health care benefits, pensions, and special pay …

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Panetta and Dempsey discussing 2013 budget

2013 Defense Budget Cuts Overview FY 2013 budget proposal cuts some programs but skips hard decisions

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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta revealed details of the Obama administration’s defense budget proposal in an announcement at the Pentagon on Jan. 26.

The plan for fiscal year 2013, which starts …

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Sequestration: What’s Next?

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As virtually everyone now knows, the congressional super committee’s abject failure to reach a deficit reduction agreement has triggered “sequestration.” The next question is: Now what?

Sequestration mandates $600 billion …

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A C-17 Globemaster III takes off from Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, March 26, 2010. Col. Thomas Bergeson, 3rd Wing commander and F-22 Raptor pilot, was behind the controls of the aircraft for the first time. The flight included a KC-135 Stratotanker refuel, tactical arrivals and departures at Allen Army Airfield, and low-level flying. The Globemaster III fleet has been particularly stressed by heavy use during the last decade. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson

Used Up, Worn Out Make it do or do without?

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Major military equipment is purchased with the expectation – as part of the development and acquisition contract requirements – that it will have a useful life of one or more …

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