President Barack Obama briefs the press on a new defense strategy as Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter prepare to offer remarks at the Pentagon, Jan. 5, 2012. DOD photo by Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo
Obama's Modest Proposal On Defense -- Doyle McManus, L.A. Times
The president's Defense Strategy Review is sure to be criticized by Republicans as cutting too deep, but the real question is whether it cuts deep enough.
As he unveiled his administration's new blueprint for U.S. defense strategy last week, President Obama sought to vaccinate himself against charges that he was gutting the nation's military.
Even after the strategy is fully implemented, he said, "the defense budget will still be larger than it was at the end of the Bush administration."
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President Barack Obama briefs the press on a new defense strategy as Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter prepare to offer remarks at the Pentagon, Jan. 5, 2012. DOD photo by Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo
America’s Disarmed Future -- Arthur Herman, NRO
President Obama’s Pentagon cuts are indefensible.
You have to give President Obama credit. It takes serious gall to tell the American military to its face that you are putting it on the road to second-class status.
That’s exactly what our commander-in-chief did at the Pentagon yesterday, as he announced nearly half a trillion dollars in new spending cuts, after already chopping $480 billion during his first three years in office. He also set out plans for drastic reductions in our force size and continuing weapons programs, including the F-35 fighter — our last best hope for maintaining American dominance in the skies.
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