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Carter Visits Asia to Discuss Common Security Challenges
Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter is traveling to Asia to meet with U.S. allies and partners and continue defense consultations...
China Replaces UK as Fifth Global Arms Exporter – SIPRI
China has become the world’s fifth largest exporter of major conventional arms, replacing the United Kingdom, the Stockholm International Peace...
South Korea-US drills start as North rejects armistice
South Korea and the United States launched joint drills Monday involving thousands of troops, defying North Korea's apocalyptic threat to...
Defense Budget Cuts Demand Smart Downsizing
It is generally agreed that the additional cuts to the defense budget required by sequestration will do more than just...
China Defends Military Expansion
China will increase its defense budget by 10 percent this year. The country's growing military spending is a trend that...
Russia will continue building up its defenses
Russia will continue to build up its own defense capabilities according to foreseeable threats stated President Vladimir Putin at a...
US wasted billions in Iraq with few results: inspector
After invading Iraq ten years ago, the United States spent $60 billion on a vast reconstruction effort that left behind...
China Defense Budget to Grow 10.7% in 2013: Report
China plans to raise its central government defense budget by 10.7 percent to 720.2 billion yuan (114.3 billion U.S. dollars)...
Budget Cuts Threaten Defense Industrial Base, Official Says
Large and sudden U.S. spending cuts and an unstable budget environment promise long-term damage to a critical segment of the...
Defense Downturn: Which Missions Will Go Away?
Beggars can't be choosers. When a government accumulates trillion-dollar deficits year after year, eventually there is a day of reckoning....
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