Center for Strategic Communication

Nuclear Budget Cuts: an Easy Choice

The House Armed Services Committee is holding a hearing today (watch it live here) on the effects of the budget sequester – the automatic, across-the-board cuts that will go into effect in January unless Congress can come up with a way to avoid it. Words we’ll...

What we are reading

Defense industry, strategy at major crossroads August Cole and Zachary Miller/The Hill The U.S. defense industry faces as much uncertainty in the next six months as any time since the Berlin Wall fell. Unsteady attempts by lawmakers to avoid sequestration now make...

The Sequestration Update

As the sequestration clock continues to tick, the opportunity for a legitimate compromise in Congress appears to be diminishing. Secretary Panetta and JSC Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey recently pleaded for a solution with Congress claiming sequestration would...