The Competent Conservative

McClatchy News Service reports: WASHINGTON — In a strongly worded message to Congress outlining its priorities for a military spending bill, the Obama administration today said it disapproved of including money for pensions for 26 elderly members of the World War II-era Alaska Territorial Guard. The Guardsmen are among those assigned to protect Alaska from [...]

As a former Pentagon war-planning strategist, I feel obligated to comment that Tom McInerney’s and his collaborator’s views are quite poignant regarding Bob Gates’ sufficiency as our Secretary of Defense.  He, the Obama Administration, and the current secular-progressive Congress have placed America’s national security in great peril with their institutionalization of the 2010 Defense budget.  [...]