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Archives by date > 2013 > May

Rapid Fire May 14, 2013: Savings Catalog | Asian Naval Buildup

May 14, 2013 10:00 UTC

  • The centrist Stimson Center issued a report [PDF] compiling ideas for defense savings from a wide variety of sources. Whereas the Pentagon tends to point to billions of dollars of imaginary efficiencies lacking any specificity, this document enumerates actual, tangible options.

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Rapid Fire May 13, 2013: Israel’s Budget Cuts Taking Shape

May 13, 2013 11:55 UTC

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  • After long negotiations between its ministry of finance and defense officials, Israel’s defense budget looks set to be reduced by 3 billion sheqels (about $830M) in 2014, with 1 NIS billion in reserves used to dampen cuts that were initially expected to be deeper: Globes | AFP | Jerusalem Post.

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Rapid Fire May 10, 2013: Raytheon, US Army to Improve C-RAM

May 10, 2013 12:00 UTC

  • Raytheon Missile Systems announced it completed test flights of the control test vehicle (CTV) for the Counter-Rocket Artillery Mortar(C-RAM) Accelerated Improved Intercept Initiative (AI3). In February 2013 the US Army had announced a sole sourced 5-year IDIQ contract for the program.

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Rapid Fire May 9, 2013: Weapons to Syrian Government, Opposition

May 09, 2013 11:40 UTC

  • Israel told the US that they suspect Russia intends to sell 4 S-300 missile batteries – for a total of 144 missiles – to Syria, according to the WSJ. For what it’s worth, Russia is also setting up an international conference with the US to resolve a civil war that started more than two years ago. Meanwhile the UK continues to push for a lift of the EU embargo on arms sales to Syrian rebels.

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Rapid Fire, May 8, 2013: Can I Get You Interested in a Dozen MiG-29s?

May 08, 2013 12:25 UTC

MCM 5, taken apart

Spilling her guts out

  • In response’s to the Pentagon’s latest assessment of Chinese military capability, China issued their usual credulity-stretching denials. Of course everybody spies on everybody, and China has been caught again and again with their hand in the cyber cookie jar.

  • The US Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is now handling the remains of former USS Guardian, the minesweeper that ran aground a reef near the Philippines in January.

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Rapid Fire May 7, 2013 – Chinese Capability Assessment: They Spy!

May 07, 2013 12:15 UTC

Chinese territorial conflicts

No lack of friction points

  • The Pentagon released its annual report [PDF] to Congress on military developments in China. The excitable media is getting their panties in a bunch over the explicit denunciation of Chinese attacks that could help map “military capabilities that could be exploited during a crisis.” Stop the presses, that exact same phrase was already in an October 2009 report [PDF] from the congressional US-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Somehow it’s a bold move for the Obama administration to tell back to Congress what Congress told them almost 4 years ago. The report and its predecessors are in our Google Drive.

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Rapid Fire May 6, 2013: Tensions Defused in India, Flaring in Syria

May 06, 2013 11:30 UTC

  • Operations and maintenance were the first to be hit by sequestration. Pentagon Comptroller Bob Dale told Defense News that the impact of sequestration on acquisition programs will be known soon, with some noticeable but not huge cuts in units ordered, and delays especially on the research & development side. There is a significant reprogramming request coming to wrap up FY13, while the outlook for furloughs is still shifting and fuzzy.

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Rapid Fire May 3, 2013 – Australia’s Defence White Paper: Love Me Fund Me Eventually

May 03, 2013 11:20 UTC

  • Australia released its 2013 defence white paper [PDF] earlier today. The last one dates from 2009, and the government said it would publish updates at most 5 years apart because of the fast-changing environment in the Asia/Pacific region. They acknowledge the China-USA relationship as the biggest factor affecting their strategic environment, and see the Pacific and Indian oceans as merging into a single “strategic arc,” among other reasons because of how sea trade flows have evolved.

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Rapid Fire May 2, 2013: Pentagon to Get Sequestration Accommodation?

May 02, 2013 12:00 UTC

  • The Pentagon may send a request for sequestration flexibility to the House of Representatives’ Appropriations Committee next week, according to an anonymous House Republican aide quoted by Reuters.

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Rapid Fire May 1, 2013 – Sequester: Alternative History & Capitulation

May 01, 2013 12:30 UTC

  • US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dempsey told reporters it would have been “literally impossible” for the Department of Defense to integrate sequestration in its FY14 budget request. After all, the Budget Control Act was signed by the President only 18 months before the budget was due. And preparing two budgets just in case sequestration would not be repelled was not possible, even the more so because of furloughs that were scheduled to start weeks after the legal deadline to submit the president budget. There’s a full video here, if you care to pay for someone to insult your intelligence. At least Dempsey agrees that constraints can have the benefit of pushing an organization to work more efficiently.

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