A Glimmer Of Realism?

The President's new budget proposes cutting the Army to its lowest troop level since before World War II. Todd Harrison of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments

WASHINGTON: The Pentagon has proposed US$79.4 billion in war funding in 2015 even though most or all US troops are due to withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of the year, officials said on Tuesday. "Overseas contingency operations" funds are ...

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Wednesday defended the Pentagons proposed budget from criticism by Senate Republicans who said that steep cuts envisioned in the plan would leave the United States vulnerable in an increasingly chaotic world. The ...

European Commission Press release Brussels, 5 March 2014 The European Commission has today published its conclusions emerging from the in-depth reviews (IDRs) carried out into 17 Member States' economies In the same document, the Commission ...

How the U.S. military avoided budget cuts, lied about doing so, then asked for billions more. This piece originally appeared on TomDispatch . Washington is pushing the panic button, claiming austerity is hollowing out our armed forces and our ...

It's springtime in Washington. You can tell because earlier this week, U.S. President Barack Obama inaugurated one of the more sacred rites of our democracy, releasing his annual budget to Congress, entitled Opportunity for All. Representative Paul ...

- China's budgetary stance for 2014 is neutral; it forecasts a 2.1 percent deficit - SOEs are still not contributing much to the finance ministry's budget, but the situation is gradually improving - The Ministry of Finance is overhauling budget ...

When top Pentagon officials came to Capitol Hill Wednesday with their 2015 budget in hand, they offered some key clues about what they expect the future US military to look like. The budget fully reflects the historic transition taking place as ...

:40 Budgetary challenges, demographic growth and a struggle to bring in top staff are being pointed to in explaining the increase. The growing number ofchildren being referred to social care in Harrow is an illustration of thechallenges ...