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What will it take for politicians to get the message that Pentagon spending is out of control? Yesterday, President Obama released a budget that ignores automatic spending cuts and proposes more [...]

President Obama finally submitted his two-months-late budget request to Congress today, and unfortunately it shows that the administration is not grappling with the need to make serious reforms [...]

Bloomberg has been doing some great reporting on the Pentagon budget. Their infographic below paints an effective picture of how weapons companies make cutting back on unnecessary Pentagon [...]

We are only a couple of weeks away from the deadline for automatic spending cuts to discretionary spending, and Senate Democrats have released an underwhelming plan to stave off one year of the [...]

Tuesday night, President Obama announced that another 34,000 troops will come home from Afghanistan by this time next year. This is wonderful news for those 34,000 soldiers and their friends and [...]

I’m going to tear my hair out if I have to hear any more false complaints about what Pentagon budget cuts would supposedly do to our security—everything from making us a “second rate” power [...]

If Congress doesn’t break its stalemate by March 1st, automatic spending cuts will kick in. I was just on Capitol Hill talking to congressional staff, and it’s clear they need to hear more [...]

The so-called “fiscal cliff” has been averted—for now. While most of us were celebrating and blissfully ignoring congressional drama, the House and Senate passed a year-end deal that primarily [...]

Thanks to you, the White House got a clear message about the need to rid the world of nuclear weapons. On May 7, 2012, members of the Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Free World coordinating [...]

When I started talking to colleagues and congressional staff several years ago about the prospects of cutting the Pentagon budget I heard, “when pigs fly.” Since then, Pentagon [...]