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THAAD missile launch in 2005 Source: http://www.mda.mil/

The Military-Industrial Complex Strikes Back: North Korea and War for Profit

Speaking in Washington on April 3, 2013, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the U.S. can’t afford to dismiss North Korean threats as bluster.  “It only takes being wrong once, and I don’t want to be the secretary of defense who was wrong once, so we will continue to take these threats seriously,” he said.[i]  Secretary […]

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The “Fiscal Cliff” and Defense Spending Cuts: Long Overdue Accountability

It is rare that I would offer support to anything Washington proposes, but in the specific case of automatic cuts to the Defense Department, I can’t agree more.  The rhetoric in Washington is that if we, as a nation, go over the fiscal cliff, the Department of Defense as we know it will cease to exist.  […]