Articles tagged with: defense cuts
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Thursday, 27 Sep, 2012
What common sense could not kill, something called “sequestration” might at least tame.
Under this arcane but conclusive budgetary mechanism, the U.S. government will endure automatic and draconian spending cuts if it can’t cobble together a budget by January. Even the U.S. Defense Department, the epicenter of empire, will not be spared. As the largest government agency, the Pentagon is expected to suffer dearly under the sequestration sickle, and that has concentrated minds in a c...
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Tuesday, 10 Jul, 2012
American military might is so great, and it has been expanding for so long, that orders of magnitude often obscures those of necessity in discussions of U.S. national security policy.
Take The Economist, that weekly ministration of sober-mindedness. In an article this week, it took up the question in Washington of “sequestration,” a legislative procedure under which some $1.2 trillion in budget reductions would unilaterally kick in by January if lawmakers are unable negotiate deeper t...
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