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APNewsBreak: Costs soar for new war supply routes

Tags: Pentagon , Pakistan , DoD , Afghanistan

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Panetta: US 'fully prepared' for an Iran challenge

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Panetta: Army to withdraw 2 brigades from Europe

Tags: DoD , Army , Pentagon , DoD Report

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Analysis: Defense strategy shifts balance of U.S. forces

Plans would reduce ground forces while bolstering sea and air power to counter perceived threat from Asia and Western Pacific.

Tags: DoD , DoD budget , Barack Obama , Todd Harrison , Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments

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DoD budget guidance aims for leaner, more agile military

The President and the Pentagon gave the rough outlines Thursday for how they plan to create a lean, but still effective military. Ground forces will shrink, capabilities in cyber, ISR, technology will grow.

Tags: DoD , DoD budget , Budget Control Act , sequestration , Barack Obama , Martin Dempsey , Ashton Carter , Buck McKeon , Steny Hoyer , Congress , cybersecurity , ISR , Jared Serbu

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Obama launches reshaping, shrinking of US military

Obama, flanked by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, unveiled the results of an eight-month defense strategy review that is intended to guide decisions on cutting hundreds of billions from planned Pentagon spending over the coming decade. But the eight-page document contained no details about how broad concepts for reshaping the military will translate into troop or weapons cuts.

Tags: DoD , DoD budget , Barack Obama , Martin Dempsey , Buck McKeon

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Will revised DoD strategy put military pay, benefits on table?

Rudy DeLeon, the former deputy defense secretary, told In Depth with Francis Rose the new strategy and the key ideas behind did not come out of the blue. "This has been coming for a while," he said, including the possibility of military pay and benefits being on the table.

Tags: In Depth , Francis Rose , Rudy deLeon , budget , DoD , pay and benefits , Barack Obama ,

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Pentagon chief: Smaller military means extra risk

The Pentagon chief says the U.S. will have to make some tradeoffs and take some extra risks under the new military strategy laid out to absorb federal budget cuts.

Tags: DoD , Barack Obama , Martin Dempsey , budget

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LIVE: DoD announcement at 10:50 a.m.

President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, and General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, brief the media today on their strategy for a slimmed-down DoD.

Tags: DoD , Barack Obama , Martin Dempsey , budget

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Will pay, benefits bear brunt of DoD cuts?

Tom Shoop, the editor-in-chief of Government Executive magazine, posited on his blog that the Defense Department's soon-to-be-released budget cuts will almost certainly involve changes to its pay and benefits structure. He joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the plan.

Tags: budget , pay and benefits , DoD , In Depth , Francis Rose , GovExec , Tom Shoop

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