Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is expected to unveil exactly how he's going to strike $450 billion off the U.S. defense budget today, and it involves cutting an estimated 80,000 troops over the next decade, The New York Times has learned.
Defense cutbacks became less of a theory and more of a reality Wednesday, as Boeing announced the planned closure of one of its oldest airplane plants in Kansas and a separate report indicated a coming reduction of the Air Force's fleet.
Sometimes the military would prefer its enemies writhing in pain as opposed to dead on the ground. For times like that, it enlists the Joint Non-Lethal Directorate, which produces a reference book of in-use and next-generation fantasy weapons for the military.
With the Super Committee officially dead, lobbyists, politicians and Pentagon officials are racing to repeal the $600 billion in defense cuts scheduled to begin in 2013.
Earlier today, Democrats leaked a $3 trillion deficit-reduction package to the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Dow Jones and Reuters but in each case, one major government expense was not mentioned: defense spending.
The Afghan defense minister estimates that the country will need to spend $5 billion a year on security after the U.S. withdraws its forces in 2014 and would like the U.S. to foot the bill.
China's debt clout and the island nation's needs loomed large
Families of the men who were killed in the copter crash this weekend speak about their loved ones
The cuts could amount to $550 billion over the next ten years
CIA chief is widely expect to be easily confirmed for defense secretary post
Journalists, military personnel and senior U.S. officials had their accounts hacked
Why cyber deterrence is much more difficult than nuclear deterrence
The U.S. military may respond to attacks with conventional military force
It's going with Android for its prototype, but it's keeping the receipt
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