On Thursday, the Pentagon will begin detailing its plans to cut $500 billion from the military's budget over the next decade. The reason, insists President Barack Obama, is that "since 9/11, our defense budget grew at an extraordinary pace." That's true in top-line numbers—but it's anything but true when examined strategically.

Dick Armey is noticeably non-specific in discussing what might be cut from Pentagon budgets. This amounts to a confession of ignorance in national defense matters.

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates's new budget will leave us weaker to pay for the president's domestic programs.

As the United States continues its defense cuts—even as U.S. forces are still in harm’s way around the world in places like Afghanistan—many in Washington and across America are scratching their heads, wondering why this is a problem.

The Army's combination of uncertainty about the nature of future warfare, excessive enthusiasm about technology and an inability to communicate a clear purpose may inhibit the production of new ground combat vehicles, just as it doomed the Future Combat Systems program fifteen months ago.

With his decision to cancel the Future Combat Systems family of ground combat vehicles, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has done the U.S. Army a grave disservice.

The Quadrennial Defense Review and budget proposal suggest that the Obama administration wants to limit future American military "adventurism" by limiting our capabilities.

Three disturbing trends now underway in Europe together represent the greatest erosion of democratic practice in the world's advanced democracies since 1945.