by Spencer Ackerman | Feb 28, 2013 | Monitor
This impending cut to the defense budget isn’t abstract: the Army expects looming budget cuts to mean fewer funerals and longer wait times for burial at Arlington National Cemetery.
by Spencer Ackerman | Feb 27, 2013 | Monitor
The entire U.S. military is terrified of the impending budget cuts scheduled to hit Friday. But the Army thinks the cuts are demonic.
by Spencer Ackerman | Feb 26, 2013 | Monitor
Chuck Hagel’s reward for making it through a bruising Senate confirmation: guiding a Pentagon currently freaking out over budget cuts. And, quite possibly, recasting its entire defense strategy.
by Spencer Ackerman | Feb 20, 2013 | Monitor
What do you do when forthcoming budget cuts threaten your routine military operations? If you’re the Navy, you start frantically tweeting your contingency plans.
by Spencer Ackerman | Feb 12, 2013 | Monitor
As you’ll hear in the State of the Union tonight, President Obama wants to halve the U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan and cut the U.S. nuclear stockpile. The first thing he can do. The second thing, well…