The sensible course of action in the face of uncertainty is to enact the Federal Consent Decree Fairness Act and to monitor its outcomes.

The $489 billion cut to defense budgets engineered by Barack Obama — as well as the played-for-fool Republican accomplices on Capitol Hill — won't just mean less American military power. These cuts have significant consequences for America's allies, as well. Consider the case of the...

The United States has been in an extended "defense drawdown" since the end of the Cold War, reaping substantial "peace dividends" throughout the Clinton years, during the Obama years, and now under the Budget Control Act.

The problem is that–as is plain to see – the Obama administration is not planning what Clinton describes as a strategic "pivot" from the Middle East to the Asia Pacific. It’s just retreating from the Middle East and reducing the U.S. military.

"Concurrency" in defense programs–that is, overlapping development and production of weapons systems–has long been a controversial Pentagon practice. Now the Obama Pentagon is threatening to rewrite the procurement rules in a way that would make it extremely difficult to have the option of concurrent development and production.

Obama’s way of war, his “rebalancing” of U.S. strategic priorities, and the damage done to American military power are already being felt in the world.

This November, the Democratic party may win a majority of the vote for president while also increasing its representation in both houses of Congress. Then what?

If this so-called "Super Committee" falls short—or if the required deficit reduction legislation is not enacted by January 15, 2012—then the Pentagon's long-term budget will suffer the brunt of the consequences.