Congress, SecDef MUST Lead Pentagon From The Vale Of Seven Sins: CNAS

Congress, SecDef MUST Lead Pentagon From The Vale Of Seven Sins: CNAS
Congress, SecDef MUST Lead Pentagon From The Vale Of Seven Sins: CNAS

  WASHINGTON: Some of Chuck Hagel’s best friends in the defense world offered him a compelling report on how to save almost as much as the $500 billion that the Budget Control Act will force him and his successors to cut over the next decade. The wonderful title of the report, “The Seven Deadly Sins…

Army Chief Odierno’s ‘Foreign Policy’ Piece Shouts Into The Sequestration Wind

WASHINGTON: In war, as in stand-up comedy, timing is everything, and Gen. Ray Odierno’s timing could hardly be worse. This week, in the prestigious journal Foreign Policy, the Army Chief of Staff published an essay on “The Force of Tomorrow” that is long, thoughtful, a little bland –- and completely overtaken by events. It hit…

Ex-DUSD Flournoy & Ex-Comptroller Zakheim Debate Budget, US Role In World

WASHINGTON: The United States is still the world’s indispensable nation and we’ll probably avoid sequestration, albeit by the skin of our teeth. That’s the modestly reassuring message from the unlikely duo of Michèle Flournoy, who recently left her job as under secretary of defense for policy, and Dov Zakheim, Pentagon comptroller under George W. Bush.…