Pretending that Congress should avoid a domestic base closure round because we need to target overseas bases first simply ignores reality and the real money it is generating as a result of these savings.

The imperative for reductions in the DoD civilian workforce is real after a decade of unchecked growth and a contracting military's needs decline. The new Secretary of Defense must move beyond feel-good speeches and make a detailed plan which he personally oversees to rein in this largesse. 

Had Pentagon officials provided detail about how and where they would implement these painful spending reductions in April, politicians could clearly have understood the consequences of their choices. Not providing them publicly has only made it easier for Washington to absorb the sequester.

By continuing to let the Pentagon ignore sequestration, Congress is letting defense leaders postpone and push off the need for comprehensive change.

Should we be surprised, angry, or confused that the U.S. military is using Chinese satellites from a subsidiary of a state-owned company to render communications services in Africa?

Further leaks coming out of the interrogation of the surviving Boston Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, show the continuing mistakes of the Obama administration in its elevation of ideology over national security.

The specter of isolationism is stalking the Republican Party.

Not only is the fleet shrinking and aging, but it is also changing its composition by trading powerful combat ships before the end of their service lives for larger numbers of smaller and less capable ships.

The demands on the U.S. Air Force are not shrinking, although its money is.

With budgets coming and staying down, only structural solutions promise savings of the magnitude necessary to meet challenges such as sequestration. Unfortunately, so far, Washington is signaling that it is still unready for these types of dramatic changes.