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Air Force Cuts Aviation Support at Public Events PETERS AND ROCHE: ‘What do we want the military to do?’ By former Secretaries of the Air Force Whit Peters and James Roche, Washington Times Panetta: Cuts could make U.S. a 2nd-rate power By Tom Vanden Brook - USA TODAY Mike Wynne, Former Air Force Secretary, Says Deploy Fifth Gen Planes, Fly Em With Korean F-16s From AOL Defense Extended Deterrence Gen. John Michael Loh , Defense News Sec. Donley: How Low Can The Air Force Go? -- EXCLUSIVE By Secretary Michael B. Donley, AOL DEFENSE Sec. Donley On The Air Force's Budgetary Balancing Act: EXCLUSIVE By Secretary Michael B. Donley, AOL DEFENSE An Interview with Gen Mark A. Welsh III From the Strategic Studies Quarterly Pentagon Draws the Line on Deliberate Satellite Interference By Space News 5 think tanks warn of things to come for the Pentagon By Gordon Adams, Foreign Policy The Warhead Gap: China’s tactical and theater nuclear force levels revealed by Russian general By: Bill Gertz China Most Threatening Cyberspace Force, U.S. Panel Says By Tony Capaccio, Bloomberg U.S. Air Force struggles with aging fleet By The Associated Press J-31 fighter roars off on maiden flight By: Xu Tianran, Global Times Every Airman has the potential to be an innovator By Master Sgt. Brian Potvin, Air Force Command and Control Integration Center Analysts: China Adapting New Fighter for Carrier Operations By Wendell Minnick, Defense News Top Five Threats to National Security in the Coming Decade By National Defense Magazine The Air Force Needs A New Training Aircraft As Soon As Possible By Loren B. Thompson, Ph.D., Lexington Institute The Future of the U.S. Nuclear Enterprise from AFA's Air & Space Conference If Cuts Happen, Troops, Major Weapons Are DoD Priorities By Marcus Weisgerber, Defense News Protect U.S. Defense Labs From Budget Cuts By Philip Coyle, Defense News Sequestration and What It Would Do to U.S. Military Power By Peter W. Singer, Nation.Time.com This Week at War: Shipping Out by Robert Haddick, SmallWarsJournal.com Reckless defense cuts would hurt small firms and military By Roy Sweatman, Guest columnist, Orlando Sentinel Don’t Give Up on Hypersonic Technology, Experts Say in Wake of X-51 Test Failure By Stew Magnuson, National Defense The Return of Dr. Strangelove By Jan Kallberg & Adam Lowther, August 20, 2012, The Diplomat Air Force Cuts Mean Service Is 'Slowly Going Out of Business' By Mackenzie Eaglen and Doug Birkey, August 8, 2012, AOL Defense New Air Force Chief Must Reverse Service's Downward Spiral By Loren Thompson, Forbes Latest Iranian Missile Test Seeks to Erode American Resolve By Scott Erickson, The Foundry, August 6, 2012 This Week at War: Salami Slicing in the South China Sea By Robert Haddick, Small Wars Journal Most power restored after India hit by second, even larger outage By Harmeet Shah Singh, CNN Can a New NATO Deter Iran? By Zachary K. Goldman and Mira Rapp-Hooper, The Diplomat Rise Is Seen in Cyberattacks Targeting U.S. Infrastructure: By David E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt January's automatic spending cuts spook US Congress America’s ‘Rebalance’ Finds its Footing By Luke Hunt, The Diplomat Draconian defense cuts no solution to deficit By: Michael E. Richardson Cybersecurity Legislation: Solution or Distraction? By Sandra Erwin, National Defense Magazine Szechuan Surprise By Bill Gertz, The Washington Free Beacon Pentagon Digs In on Cyberwar Front By Julian Barnes, Wall Street Journal Coping with China’s Strategic Rise By William Choong, Singapore Strait Times America's 'Pacific pivot' craze By Max Book, the LA Times China Starts 'Combat Ready' Patrols By Ben Blanchard, Judy Hua, and David Stanway, Reuters / June 28, 2012 China’s race to space: Building threat to US defense By Arthur Herman, New York Post Deal to stop sequestration will have more defense budget cuts and new tax increases By Mackenzie Eaglen, The Hill’s Congress Blog Lockheed CEO: Budget Impasse Will Cause Long-Term Damage to Defense Industry By Sandra Erwin, National Defense Magazine Why America Needs a Grand Strategy By William C. Martel, Foreign Policy Industry Asks Panetta for Guidance on Sequestration Cuts By Sandra Erwin, National Defense America’s Response to China’s Challenge in Space By Dean Cheng, The Foundry (Official blog of The Heritage Foundation) The battle for the military’s future By Walter Pincus Don’t take risks with our national defense Yves Fontaine, Quad-City Times (Davenport, IA) Iran Is Serious About Cyber By David Inserra, The Foundry (Blog of the Heritage Foundation) The Rewards (and Risks) of Cyber War Steve Coll, The New Yorker Deterioration of Nuclear Infrastructure Undermines U.S. Security Chris Gardner, from The Foundry, the Heritage Foundation Blog War in Cyberspace: Computer viruses may have slowed Iran's drive for a bomb, but the U.S. is vulnerable to similar attacks Editorial, Balitmore Sun 12 Things Missing from China Report Gabe Collins, The Diplomat A Defense Posture We Can Afford Stuart Koehl, Weekly Standard The dangers of deep defense cuts Thomas Donnelly, Gary J. Schmitt, Mackenzie Eaglen, AEI Why Europe Still Needs Nuclear Deterrence Imants Liegis, Linas Linkevicius and Janusz Onyszkiewicz, The Moscow Times Acquisition Lessons From ’69 Chris Choate, Defense News Analysis: Looming end of Afghan mission leaves NATO with identity crisis David Brunnstrom and Adrian Croft, Reuters Missile defense cuts: A perilous mistake Don Young (Opinion Contributor), Politico Air Power Key to U.S. Asia Goals Lt. Col. Peter Garretson, The Diplomat Military’s Aging Aviation Force Puts America at Risk Rob Bluey, from The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation Potential military cutbacks opposed by Hampton Roads congressional delegation Forum discusses cuts that could take effect in January Joe Lawler, Daily Press Real consequences of delaying F-35 program; Slowing production will increase costs and keep pilots in obsolete fighters Gens. John D.W. Corley and William R. Looney III, Avionics Intelligence The Other China Missile Threat The Diplomat, with Assistant Editor Harry Kazianis and Roger Cliff, a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation Adm. Mike Mullen: Debt is still biggest threat to U.S. security Geoff Colvin, senior editor-at-large, CNN Money Don't forget India's nukes Jane Harman, Los Angeles Times Another victory in the drone wars National Post Editorial Board F-22 Raptor Fighter Jet CBS 60 Minutes Modest US military presence is in our interest Paul Dibb, The Australian China blamed for multi-continent cyberspying caper in 2011 Mark Clayton, The Christian Science Monitor Nuclear weapon reductions must be part of strategic analysis Henry A. Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft, WashingtonPost.com Blast-off: 6 recent missile advances Christian Science Monitor “Operation Chimmichanga” Tests Pentagon’s Stealth Strike Force By: David Axe, Danger Room Blog reporter, Wired Magazine; Noah Shachtman, Nonresident Fellow, Foreign Policy, 21st Century Defense Initiative Who Was Behind the Stuxnet Attack By Richard Clarke, Smithsonian.com Navies worldwide investing in air power By Andy Nativi, Jay Menon, Bill Sweetman, Aviation Week US and Allies move to counter Chinese sea By Michael Richardson, The Japan Times This Week at War: Winners and Losers of the Defense Budget By Robert Haddick, Foreign Policy Budget Doublespeak: Analysts Cast Doubt on Notion of ‘Reversible’ Cuts by National Defense Magazine Airpower Key to Strategic Military Cuts By John Michael Loh Overspending The Peace Dividend Russia upgrading nuclear arsenal with new 'Satan' ICBM By JohnThomas Didymus Hackers target US security think tank By Cassandra Vinograd U.S. Air Power Must Be Modernized By Daniel Goure, Ph.D., Vice President with the Lexington Institute The U.S. withdrawal from Iraq marks the end America’s great expectations By Andrew J. Bacevich, The Washington Post Weighing Defense Strategy Economics By Gen. John M. Loh, Newport News Daily Press Iran responsible for 1998 U.S. embassy bombings By Marc A. Thiessen, The Washington Post North Korea's new course It's courting Beijing now; normalizing ties with the U.S. is no longer a priority. By Robert Carlin and John W. Lewis A 'New START' to an arms race between the US and Russia? By Yousaf Butt, The Christian Science Monitor In Race for Fastest Supercomputer, China Outpaces U.S. By Dan Lyons, Newsweek Air Force Positions For Resurgence In Pacific Era By Loren Thompson, Forbes The Way to Respond to China By the Los Angeles Times, Andrew F. Krepinevich Defense on the rocks By the Washington Post, Editorial Board Opinion West: U.S. Must Understand 21st-Century Combat By Rep. Alan West, Guest Contributor, Roll Call Panetta sees half of defense cuts from weapons (Reporting by Andrea Shalal-Esa and Susan Cornwell; Editing by Gary Hill) More Than Luck?: A veteran intelligence chief talks about finally connecting the dots. By James Kitfield, National Journal Hard Choices for Ground Forces By DAVID W. BARNO, NORA BENSAHEL and TRAVIS SHARP, Defense News Ryan Crocker’s 'strategic patience' in Afghanistan By Jackson Diehl, Washington Post Defense budget could fall by 31 percent in 10 years, think tank says By Charles S. Clark, GovernmentExecutive.com The undimmed danger of Iran’s nuclear program By The Editorial Board of the Washington Post Chambliss, Gingrey Affirm F-35 Support By Leon Stafford, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Where’s the Plan for Defense Spending? By Joe Sestak, The Huffington Post NATO’s Teachable Moment By The New York Times PINCKNEY: High cost of scrimping on fighter aircraft By Brig. Gen. Thomas C. Pinckney, The Washington Times Taking Defense Hostage By Kim R. Holmes, Washington Times Don’t Call it a Comeback By Kurt Volker, Foreign Policy Column: Talking to the world's Gadhafis is a fool's errand By Michael Rubin, USA Today How to prepare Afghanistan for U.S. withdrawal By John Podesta, Brian Katulis and Caroline Wadhams, The Washington Post Where’s the Syria Plan? By Eugene Robinson, The Washington Post -- August 18, 2011 Notes from the Front Line: Wanted: A Good Job and Some Understanding By Jonathan Raab, The New York Times The South China Sea Is the Future of Conflict By Robert D. Kaplan, Foreign Policy Zawahiri’s First 100 Days by Bruce Riedel, The Daily Beast -- August 15, 2011 10 ways to fix the budget By Robert J. Samuelson, WashingtonPost.com -- August 15, 2011 The V-22 is Safer Than Helos, Effective, Says Man Who Wrote the Book By Richard Whittle, AOL Defense Pentagon: Time to get by with less By Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun -- August 10, 2011 Afghan people are still fighting the good fight By Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, USA Today Counterterrorism on a budget By Walter Pincus, The Washington Post -- August 8, 2011 In Afghanistan, the rise and fall of ‘Little America’ By Rajiv Chandrasekaran, The Washington Post -- August 5, 2011 Problem with power system grounds all F-35s By Bob Cox, Fort Worth Star-Telegram – August 4, 2011 Iraq, U.S. to discuss extended stay for troops by Ned Parker and Raheem Salman, Los Angeles Times – August 3, 2011 China begins to build its own aircraft carrier by Bill Gertz, The Washington Times – August 2, 2011 Pentagon contracts go global by Marjorie Censer, WashingtonPost.com – August 1, 2011 New Navy Chief Warned About Costly Ship, Plane Programs by Jeanette Steele, SignOnSanDiego.com -- July 28, 2011 Two Aerospace Giants Post Contrasting Results by W.J. Hennigan, LATimes.com -- July 28, 2011 Mullen Talks Of Gulf In Military Relations by Li Xing and Li Xiaokun, ChinaCaily.com.cn -- July 27, 2011 U.S. Cash Said To Be Reaching Taliban by Karen DeYoung, WashingtonPost.com -- July 24, 2011 Sources: USAF Suspects Carbon Monoxide In F-22 Grounding Dave Majumdar, DefenseNews.com -- July 21,2011 House Panel Votes To Slash U.N. Funding, Limit Foreign Aid by Mary Beth Sheridan, WashingtonPost.com -- July 20, 2011 Lockheed Martin Offers Buyouts To 6,500 Workers by Marjorie Censer, WashingtonPost.com -- July 19,2011 Liberals See Opportunity For Big Cut In Defense by Rowan Scarborough, WashingtonTimes.com -- July 18. 2011 Acquisition Chief Says Pentagon Needs To Buy Faster by Marjorie Censer, WashingtonPost.com -- July 17, 2011 Torture Is Alleged In Iraq by Ned Parker, LATimes.com -- July 14, 2011 Afghan’s Death A Setback For U.S. Mission by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, seattletimes.nwsource.com -- July 12, 2011 U.S. Set To Sell Fighters to Iraq by Adam Entous, Ben Lando, and Nathan Hodge, WSJ.com -- July 12, 2011 Contractors Resist DoD’s Tougher Info Rules By Sean Reilly, FederalTimes.com -- July 10, 2011 US, Allies’ Share Of World Military Spending Shrinking, Study Says by Jim Wolf, Reuters.com -- July 7, 2011 GOP Split Over Defense Spending by Charles Hoskinson, POLITICO.com --July 6, 2011 NATO’s Operation In Libya, As Viewed From The Cockpit By Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post -- July 5, 2011 Lockheed F-35 May Face Cuts In Budget Review, Gates Says By Tony Capaccio and Viola Gienger -- June 29, 2011 Poll Shows Support For Afghanistan Plan By Susan Page, USA TODAY -- Lockheed Adds New Executive to F-35 Management Team By Bob Cox - Tuesday, Jun. 28, 2011 Gates Sees Shift In Strategy In Afghanistan by Jim Michaels - USA Today Monday Jun 27, 2011 White House Threatens to Veto Defense Spending Bill By Nathan Hodge, Wall Street Journal, June 23, 2011 Lockheed To Finish F-35 Contract at Profit Reuters.com, June 21, 2011 The Defense Secretary’s Exit Interview TheDailyBeast.com, June 21, 2011 How to Exit Afghanistan By Henry A. Kissinger, WashingtonPost.com Test of hypersonic X-51 aircraft ends prematurely By W.J. Hennigan, Los Angeles Times, June 17, 2011 Senators question Pentagon cuts amid doubts on NATO By Nancy A. Youssef, McClatchy Newspapers Snapshot: NATO in Afghanistan compiled by AFA's Policy & Communications staff Five Steps to Save America’s Defense Industrial Base by James Jay Carafano, Ph.D., The Heritage Foundation, June 9, 2011 Letter to Editor By Chet Curtis, June 9, 2011 Panetta Supports Cuts While Maintaining 'Core Elements' By Tony Capaccio, Businessweek.com, June 9, 2011 Leon Panetta’s 5 challenges By Charles Hoskinson, Politico.com, June 8, 2011 Remembrances: Combat Ace Led Early Commando Operations By Stephen Miller
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