Obama Calling for Defense Budget Cuts

 

By FOXNews

Obama sees defense as place to cut budget

The Obama administration has asked the military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff to cut the Pentagon’s budget request for the fiscal year 2010 by more than 10 percent —about $55 billion —a senior U.S. defense official tells FOX News.

Obama seeks space weapons ban

 

By Andrea Shalal-Esa,Reuters

 

Defense department image of space defense

President Barack Obama’s pledge to seek a worldwide ban on weapons in space marks a dramatic shift in U.S. policy while posing the tricky issue of defining whether a satellite can be a weapon.

Moments after Obama’s inauguration [...]