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| Defense Cuts Will Reach DC, Slow Economy |
| 2010-09-13 |
| After making cuts in military hardware budgets last year, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates last month took aim more directly at the Washington region's defense industry, calling for reducing spending on "support contractors" by 10 percent each of the next three years. Hardware is fabbed in Flyover Country; this is gonna hurt! After surging in size and profits during the post-9/11 era, the defense industry in metropolitan Washington is bracing for a major contraction and significant layoffs that economists said could produce a drag on the regional economy for years. Marketing, administration, and R&D folks will be the first to go. Management will have to remain at full strength in case they have to expand again. |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #3 For consideration by Americans = Amerikans... To wit, DAILY TIMES.PK > AMERICA FACES [Many Years of] EXPANDED THREAT FROM AL QAEDA: OBAMA, despite seeming weakness on the part of AQ + includ violent or malicious AQ activities agz the USA, Amers + Amer interests, done in the name of Third-Parties. * NEWS KERALA > [Robert Blackwill]FORMER US DIPLOMAT [again] URGES NATO TO PARTITION AFGHANISTAN [Ethno-Religious lines] OR LOSE CONTROL. Argues that the Taliban are winning, + that the "Obama Troops Surge" from Iraq is more likely than not to fail given the curr Afghan withdrawal timeframes [2011-2015]. * WAFF > POSTER THread > COULD TURKEY SPLIT INTO THREE PARTS [Kurds in SE, Aegean or "White Turk" Region, Asian or "Black Turks" in Anatolia]. and PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > AMERICA'S "FINAL SOLUTION" FOR PAKISTAN [ + also IRAN + CHINA]. National Breakup into sovereign Polities ala POST-COLD WAR USSR. * STRATEGYPAGE > IRAN QUIETLY MOVES ON BAHRAIN. * SAME > [Daoyus] CHINA-JAPAN ROW BOILS DESPITE RELEASE OFF FISHING CREW [Chin Boat Capt. still held in Japanese custody]. * WMF > CHINA'S MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS QUIETLY ISSUES "WAR ULTIMATUM" [War threat] TO JAPAN OVER DAOYUS + DETAINED CHIN FISHING BOAT. JAPAN WARNED NOT TO UNDERESTIMATE CHIN'S RESOLVE TO DEFEND ITS CITIZENS OR ITS CLAIMS ON THE DAOYUS. CPLA ORDERED BY FOREIGN MINISTRY + CENTRAL MILITARY COMMISSION TO PREPARE MILOP PLANS FOR MIL RECOVERY OF THE DAOYUS FROM JAPAN. * WMF > US "JAMESTOWN FOUNDATION" THINK TANK: CPLA CAN MILITARILY DEFEAT BOTH THE US + JAPAN IFF IT CAN OCCUPY PART OR ALL THE RYUKYUS/OKINAWA ISLANDS. CHINESE RECOVERY OF TAIWAN + DAOYUS, STRATEGIC PROJECTION OF PLA FORCES INTO WESTPAC FROM CPLA-OCCUPIED OKINAWA [andor other key Japanese islands]. DEV OF CPLA "DEFENSES-IN-DEPTH" AND LT COUNTER-ISOLATION OF US MILITARY POWER TO EASTPAC + US WEST COAST VIA ROUTINE CPLA VISITS [Local-Regio economics] + PERMANENT PLAN, PLAAF MISSLE SUBMARINE + BOMBER PATROLS TO GUAM, PEARL HARBOR, + SAN DIEGO, CA REGIONS. IOW, CHINA = CPLA + CMC view NE ASIA [JAPAN-ROK-TAWAIN includ RUSS FE = SAKHALIN, SIBERIA] as a MAJOR = STRATEGIC MIL FRONT AGZ US-ALLIES. SUB-IOW, NE ASIA = "FULDA GAP" for CHINA + CPLA. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-09-13 23:45 |
| #2 Blasphemy! The Church of Obama states that non-defense can *NEVER* be cut no matter what! |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-09-13 21:35 |
| #1 Could we cut some nondefense spending as well? |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2010-09-13 20:39 |