the reality is the defense spending both in the core defense budget and the core defense budget and the war cost has grown dramatically and has been a factor in contributing to the recent deficits. and 1997, we spent 254 billion on the department of defense, and 2012 when we include war cost we will spend about $645 billion on the department, which is down slightly from the peak in 2010. all of the decline from 2010 to 2012 came from the reduction in the war cost. the court department of the budget has been about flat since 2010 but remained at a very high level. if we compare recent overall defense spending and budget function 03 coo 50 to the recent non-defense discretionary spending we can see that overall defense funding has remained at about $554 billion since 2010 not including the war cost. while bonn defense funding has fallen from 540 billion to $489 billion in a 2012. so, of the discretionary pact, basically defense is level, non-defense down slightly. looking forward to the president is proposing a small reduction in the department of defense funding in 2013, bringing it down

the defense system is not directed against it this would be the wrong move as the matter consumes the defense of need two countries. russia feels compelled to take countermeasures because the united states has refused to give legal guarantees demonstrates that the deployment of the american missile defense system in europe is not directed against russia. nato countries are in the mood to list strips the deployment of them military installations to europe. new american military bases may soon be set up in kazakhstan. turkmenistan and tajikistan. about once russia has been encircled by military bases a new geo political reality will emerge we need to take this reality into account already today but take measures to control potential threats to our security. meanwhile the view that the missile defense shield is too expensive is getting increasing currency inside the united states itself it provides financial backing to the armed forces moreover the project is making millions of dollars from nato subcontractors inferiors countries. between two thousand and five and two thousand and nine t

the kremlin has repeatedly demanded that nato guarantees that the european missile defense shield would pose no threat to russia's strategic interests sofa the west has refused to cooperate with must go on the issue. intercontinental ballistic missiles are transported through snow bound russian forests under the cover of darkness. shrouded in secrecy the people in charge need to perform training drills and test the hardware on the roof. suddenly the convoy comes to a halt there's a forest street blocking the. crossing it's quite a challenge for the drivers of motor vehicles weighing many tons. as specially considering. heads. of heavy launches safely reach the opposite bank with the most hazardous hurdle behind it the convoy is on the move again. as the convoy forges ahead to its destination they leave the forest and pass through villages the sound of powerful engines thundering past is becoming a common occurrence lately for local people. we need such missiles to defend russia. we would be crushed if we didn't have them. that's all there is to it. when you hear them rumbling past you g

programs for the department of defense. while the other members of this committee and i continue to scrutinize proposals, i'll say today i do not fully endorse this budget request. indeed, i'm seriously concerned about how we arrived at this point. on april 13th, 2011, the president of the united states announced his intention to reduce the department of defense budget by $400 billion through 2023. however, his announcement was unsupported by any type of comprehensive strategic review or risk assessment. in fact, then secretary gates testified before congress that he only learned the night before about this massive proposed cut in our defense spending. now, the president proposes $487 billion in cuts over ten years and told the cuts are in the budget driven, but based on a review of the defense priorities. respectfully, this doesn't add up. unfortunately, this defense budget continues the administration's habit of putting short term political considerations over our long term national security interests. in afghanistan, our

the u.s. controversial missile defense shield for europe stay with us. the most vital national security interests of the united states would be most effectively realized not through hostility to rush through cooperation with it. i think russia and the united states can we just settlement of the establishment of a global missile defense system. this plan research is in jeopardy even the new strategic arms reduction treaty between moscow and washington has been unable to help. at a time of warmer bilateral relations needs whose top brass decided to deploy a missile defense system protecting europe but they were setting up too close to russia's borders and must go didn't view it as a friendly gesture. we wanted to fill in the whole of europe not just some european countries with one or european allies and friends to join in on missile defense strategy. flew in the event of the situation with a european missile defense system becoming unfavorable to russia we reserve the right to take no further steps in the nuclear disarmament area. the kremlin has repeatedl

i think that's in the ballistic missile defense review. so why we would not in a crisis choose to do that would defend on the crisis because it's certainly a possibility, at least in principle, and to argue that i'm only going to look at this particular military threat but not the other. both of which are within the reach of the technical capacity of the system is simply to mislead the public. if you tell people from europe, you also tell them you would have to -- you would have to pull this threat back and use it off the coast of the united states but you don't believe this would be the case, that's what i would call a comprehensive argument. if you tell them that it is only could be done, it can't be done from europe, you don't tell them it can be pulled back, then you're misleading them, in my judgment. >> remember, it's a land based site. >> well, that's -- i'm just saying -- all right. now, since the gmv system is currently defending the u.s., according to the study that you're defending, iraq has weapons of mass destruction so we need

the u.s. department of defense. general martin e. dempsey, united states army, chairman, joint chiefs of staff. the honorable robert, if i heal, tunds secretary of defense, and controller of the department. thank you for being here. mr. secretary, the time is yours. >> thank you very much, members of this committee, always nice to be able to return to the house i'll ask that my statement be made part of the record. >> no objection, so ordered. >> i appreciate the opportunity to appear before you to discuss the president's budget request for fiscal year 2013 for the department of defense. these brave men and women, and they are, for anybody that's gone to the battlefield and talked to those in uniform, they are without question, the next greatest generation of individuals. along with the department easy vilian professionals who support them, they've done everything that's been asked of them and more during more than a decade of war and, again, i thank you for the support you provided to them. if fy 13 budget request for the department

for the study to come to the secretary of defense and then the secretary of defense would have up to 90 days, not necessarily mandated to report to us on this independent evaluation of the basing structure. it's going to happen at the same time that there are environmental statements and other issues taking place on okinawa about the basing system and i want to see if we can move forward in a timely way to resolve this. the other one is the marine corps laydown. i've spoken with the assistant commandant about the numbers that they're using. i support this transitioning concept. i had many conversations with the marine corps and others about thisser early, but we do need to see it -- we need to see the laydown. it's part of the defense authorization bill. the question that i actually have in this short period of time relates to the evolving situation in syria. and, general, i would like to ask if you might characterize for us the lack of a better term, the on the ground opposition that now exists to the syrian regime. what proportion of this is domestic, what proportion is foreign, wha

the defense science board report stated the following. none of the radars in the phased adaptive approach, none of them, are up to the job of supporting the system's workability. none of them. they are too short ranged. i will show you a chart, if necessary, that will show you the radar cross-section of a rather large and rather typical cone-shaped warhead is at least 10 times smaller than what dean showed is the case, at least at x band. at l band, it is a tenth of the square meter. if that radar cross-section is smaller, that means the range of the radar is not only determined by the power of the radar, its antenna size, the gain of the antenna, radar cross-section of the object, radar reflectivity of the object, which is in control of the adversary is what determines the range of the radar. if an object is a very small radar cross-section, and in this case you can typically expect an unsophisticated warhead with where there's been no effort to make it stealthy to be 1/100 square meter all these radars have shorter range than what peopl

if we don't get engage on remote, the defense, the broad area defense of europe is virtually impossible unless you start proliferating interceptor sites all over the place. so that highlights the importance of that particular aspect of the defense. i was talking earlier with harold about the issue of russia, and i want to at least touch on a little bit of why the russians are concerned. but phase four of the european phase adaptive approach is really designed to defend the united states, not europe. up through phase three, that's defense of europe. phase four is defending the continental united states. so here i've put interceptors in poland, this is circuit 2020. i assume engage on remote, and i assume a standard missle iii block 2b of different speeds. and this shows the defended footprint going against an iranian icbm, let's assume they have an icbm. this is the maps mum range of the icbm i've assumed here slicing through the united states. if intercept speed is four and a half kilometers per second which is very fast for defending europe, this is it in here. you really cannot protec

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the. missile defense system in europe is not directed against russia. nato countries are in two respects the deployment of them military installations to europe. new american military bases may soon be set up and done. to administer tajikistan. about once russia has been encircled by military bases as a new geo political reality will emerge we need to take this reality into account already today but take measures to control potential threats to our security. meanwhile the view that the missile defense shield is too expensive is gaining increasing currency inside the united states itself it provides financial backing to the armed forces moreover the project is making millions of dollars from nato subcontractors in various countries. between two thousand and five and two thousand and nine the u.s. has spent fifteen billion dollars and the price to pay for the entire program that we are dealing with right now here in two thousand and eleven is another hundred fifty billion dollars that's larger than many country's entire military budgets. some of the fundin

and it would come out of every area of the defense budget. and the danger is when you do it that way, you automatically hollow out the force. because what you're doing is, you're weakening every area of the defense budget by some kind of blind formula. and it mean even though we'll have a smaller force structure as a result of the cuts, they'll be ill-equipped, ill-trained and ill-prepared. >> secretary, when do you need to start making the changes? january 1st next year is when the sequester goes into effect. when would you have to start making changes at d.o.d.? >> i'm waiting for omb guidance, but i would assume sometime in the summer. >> so you're looking for something from congress prior to the summer. >> that's correct. >> we're now into the spring. and we would need to act very quickly. you talked about health care quickly. let me talk to you about a statistic. 17.4 billion is what you spent on health care in 2000, and you're spending 50 billion today. >> that's right. >> it's the biggest krins in your budgets, as i understand it. do yo

now the department of defense report, get the department of defense to order the deputy secretary askedfor also made an amazing statement. it says something i've been saying for more than 10 years. but i've been saying for 10 years, if he is the suitcases out there and just inspecting with your eyes, you can't tell whether or not there's a bomb in the budget. you have to set them, open up the suitcase and look around and even then you might fail, that certainly won't go to attend a fire when the suitcase is a bomb they simply it. this is not a profound statement to say, but a lot of technical details behind this very simple statement, which is correct completely in terms of the analogy is doing it. the defense science board resize the department of defense has not demonstrated the ability to tell warheads from decoys. this is the report, unclassified report to deputy secretary of defense carter had asked for a couple of years ago. it also says that a capability that the missile defense agency has been talking about for a long time called to shoot, look, shoot. let me just explain this s

judge they were sick and decided to recess until 12:30 hoping she can feel bert and the defense can continue. yesterday prosecutors wrapped up their side of the case with dramatic testimony from a slew of uva lacrosse players, these are teammates of huguely's who claim he was intoxicated, irritated with his father over a graduation gift. the day that yeardly love died they even testified he lied about his whereabouts at the time of her death. prosecutors contend she died of blunt trauma force, the result of a beating by huguely, the defense put their own experts on the stand yesterday and they will continue today. they say she did not die from blunt force trauma, their medical experts hired by the defense and paid thousands of dollars are claiming she suffocated in her own pillow after she was intoxicated herself and one of the experts for the defense claims that yeardly love was so intoxicated at the time of her death she was unbalanced, seemed to be implying she could have fallen and the death could have been an accident. what is at issue is whether or not he is going to get o

the defense brought a forensic expert. d not test the wall for dna, he claimed he could not find evidence of love's head being thrown against part of a wall taken from her bedroom. testimony that contradicted the prosecution's claim that the wounds couldn't have been self-inflicted. >> you have a battle of the medical experts, sometimes they cancel each other out. you look toward something like video of yeardley love and george huguely interacting. this could play an important role in the jury deliberation room. >> reporter: two girls that were high school students at the time visiting the university of virginia were at huguely's apartment a few nights before love's death. they also testified. one of the girls said she saw love hit huguely with her purse. 57bd said she was quote angry. and then asked the girls if they had been texting huguely. what is the defense team likely to try to prove in their closing arguments? >> this is an unfortunate, tremendously unfortunate accident. they're going to want to show that the medica

the u.s. homeland and strengthen regional defenses as well. the new strategy envisions a series of organizational changes to boost efforts to partner with other militaries. we are allocating a u.s. aid to the nato response force and will rotate to europe for training and exercises, increasing opportunities for special operations forces to advise and assist our partners in other regions. fourthly, the u.s. must have the capability to fight more than one conflict at that time. we are in the 21st century and we have to use 21st century capabilities. that is the reason this budget invests in space, cyberspace, long-range precision strikes, and the continued growth of special operations forces to ensure that we can still confront and defeat multiple adversaries even with the force structure reductions that i outlined earlier. it sustains the nuclear triad of bombers, missiles, and submarines to continue to ensure that we have a safe, reliable, an effective nuclear deterrent. even with adjustments to force structure, the budget sustains the military

the defense brought a forensic expert. could not find evidence that her head was slammed against the wall from the wall in the bedroom. that contradicted the prosecution. >> you have a battle of the medical experts, sometimes they cancel each other out. you look toward something like video of yeardley love and george huguely interacting. this could play an important role in the jury deliberation room. >> reporter: two girls that were high school students at the time visiting the university of virginia were at huguely's apartment a few nights before the death. one of the girls said she saw love hit huguely with her purse. they said she was angry. and then asked the girls if they had been texts huguely. what is the defense team likely to try to prove in their closing arguments? >> this is an unfortunate, tremendously unfortunate accident. they're going to want to show that the medical evidence casts reasonable doubt that it was blunt force trauma that killed yeardley love. >> reporter: the court wrapped up early friday after

defense news." i'm vago muradian. the obama administration delivered its 2013 defense budget request to congress last week. a $613.5 billion plan that is 4.9% less than last year and includes the first real cuts in spending since the 1990s. more than 100,000 troops will be cut, major programs like the joint strike fighter delayed and aircraft efforts like the aircraft and the c27j transport plane cancelled. the moves were blasted by congressional republicans who accuse the president of gutting defense. defense secretary leon panetta, however, defended his budget, arguing it made the best of a bad situation driven by bipartisan legislation last year that layed our borrowing limit but specified cuts in government spending, including $487 billion from defense overs 10 years. >> let me be clear. let me be clear. you can't take a half trillion dollars out of the defense budget and not incur additional risks. we believe they are acceptable risks, but there are risks. >> the risks could goat worse if congress fails to reach a ne

without an agreement with the united states on missile defense and in the face of potential military threats russia was compelled to think of countermeasures. the country has declared in the past that it may withdrawal from the strategic arms reduction treaty and said it will introduce measures to counter the missile defense shield. we will go ahead with the deployment of our missile defense system it is obvious that this presupposes deployment of its components in poland in romania in a radar station in turkey obviously this will also until the is their mission of a base in spain for american ships equipped with the system. it is obvious that the missile defense system will be targeted at the russian federation rather than some mythical middle eastern countries possessing a virtual missiles. at least fifteen countries around the world have been involved with the nato missile defense shield. their radar stations in denmark and britain which is also host to interceptor missiles in. canada two is going to join the project anti missile functions will be given to norad b. agency responsi

so the defense has rested for the day because one of the defense attorneys is still very ill and testimony here will continue again tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. don, that is the latest from charlottes vifl, ville, back to you. >> stay with us, we will bring you the latest from the courtroom on air and on line at wjz.com. >> we are following breaking news out of baltimore county. we are being told lock raven high school students are back in school after being evacuated this morning. the stool was evacuated around 10:00 after a school resource officer smelled a strange odor. hazmat teams are still trying to determine what that odor is. we will bring you more as the information becomes available. >>> meantime, people insouthwest baltimore who have been without heat or hot water the past four days following a gas main break could have it restored tonight. the break happened tuesday on the 300 block of millington avenue, crews are checking each of the 900 affected homes and businesses to make sure it is safe to turn the gas back on. >> weather-wise today started out foggy and damp but shaping up to be

a special report on the negotiations between russia and the us about the missile defense system is up ahead but first here's kerry with the latest business. thank you so much come to the business program here and i'll say russia is in a period of political transition delegates of the troika dialogue economic forum in moscow happened just scuffing the reforms the country needs to put in place following the march presidential election now in a cause or that is the events of business all to. also censored political cycle so it's important to assess the birds at the moment and form and in its understand want changes needs to be made in this of course will be one of the things asked over the rest of the course of this already offering their opinions and suggestions and support out for those are now joined by some good we're going to do i don't think much for joining us thank you for giving me the first person. i. want to get on with. i think all the solutions are actually listed in the prime minister's article and did them with us last month they were here to say that russia should move aw

the defense of need two countries. russia feels compelled to take countermeasures because the united states has refused to give legal gay.

and if romney beats obama, he said he'd reverse the defense cuts. ere's a chance it might not become a reality at all. bottom line, lockheed martin's trajectory makes a lot of sense. it makes a lot of sense to me. when it comes to defense stocks, there's method to the market's madness. a madness that wants yield in a time where there's very little -- a madness amongst cheap valuations. madness that seems downright rational to this "mad money" guy. let's go to barry in georgia. barry? >> caller: hey, jim. how you doing today? >> real good. how about you? >> caller: doing good. got a question for you on one of your action stocks from the energy segment, kdn. they didn't report a good quarter in military or their wind turbines. and this information because of the special dividend -- >> right. >> getting this information from brokers as to when the next date of that is. and they're telling me nothing until next month. >> yeah, i don't think they've announced. you know why? it's very funny. i was talking with my friend david faber, some of the companies a

it is not the defense department that is putting us into a very precarious situation in spending. having said that, you've stepped up to the plate. five years that are serioushe and you've devised a strategy the best way you can, to meet the threats that we can meet, given the cuts. just a couple of years ago, before you got here, mr. secretary and before you got here, mr. chairman, secretary gates in that same seat, was y saying that we had to, over the next five years, have a 2% growth over inflation or we would have to reduce the size of the force. well, that's come to pass because we not only are not having a 2% growth overinflation, we're having a reduction when you consider inflation. and your report from the department points to the fact that we're going to have negative real growth over the next five years based on the budget. when you take into account inflation. so we understand that and we're going to work through that and you have stepped up and said that the military can live with this. but the sequestration we cannot live with. i think we're all in total agreement on

missile defense system which would include russia and the european union nato and the united states washington says that it's ready to cooperate but it has to have a tough stance always going to its defense while the foreign minister says that this is russia's foreign minister says this issue through etan's the positive relations between these two branches the eastern and the western branch of the european civilization like they said russia and the united states but of course there are many great examples of positive cooperation between russia and the northern north atlantic treaty organization for example cooperation in afghanistan and with transit problems for nato in pakistan russia is playing a major wall in the operation there giving its air corridor or through its airspace and there is also of course a great example of. cooperation between washington and moscow being the new strategic arms reduction treaty with the two biggest nuclear arms who is now reducing their arsenals because of that cooperation. from the annual security conference in munich. protests have been raging across europe

what is the defense team likely to prove? n unfortunate, tremendously unfortunate accident. they're going to want to show that the medical evidence casts reasonable doubt that it was blunt force trauma that killed yeardley love. >> reporter: the court wrapped up early on friday. one of the lead defense attorneys was sick. the judge says he want the trial to move forward. it's possible george huguely's father could take stand. >> a big case. possibly more developments today. >>> now, another look at the morning's headlines. to ron kay cloclaiborne. >>> the 29-year-old moroccan arrested in an fbi string thought america's war on terrorism was an attack on muslims. the man was arrested in washington, d.c. wearing what he thought was a suicide bomb vest. >>> some 1500 family and friends will say good-bye to whitney houston today. the home-going celebration will be held at the church she attended as a little girl. >>> the pope welcomed 22 new cardinals today. the new cardinals were elevated, as it's called today, as a ceremony at st

for the study to come to the secretary of defense and then the secretary of defense would have up to 90 days, not necessarily mandated to report to us on this independent evaluation of the basing structure. it's going to happen at the same time that there are environmental statements and other issues taking place on okinawa about the basing system and i want to see if we can move forward in a timely way to resolve this. the other one is the marine corps laydown. i've spoken with the assistant commandant about the numbers that they're using. i support this transitioning concept. i had many conversations with the marine corps and others about thisser early, but we do need to see it -- we need to see the laydown. it's part of the defense authorization bill. the question that i actually have in this short period of time relates to the evolving situation in syria. and, general, i would like to ask if you might characterize for us the lack of a better term, the on the ground opposition that now exists to the syrian regime. what proportion of this is domestic, what proportion is foreign, wha

the defense budget. secretary leon panetta and army general martin dempsey testifying on capitol hill before the senate armed services committee and he is essentially defending the blueprint to slash the size of the army and marine corps and cut back on ship building and fighter jets as well as weapon systems. it would add up to $125 in spending for military operations and pentagon nell. another $88.5 biller for the wars in iraq and afghanistan. some more numbers for you. the total is $32 billion less than this year's budget, which is a reflection of the drawdown in the two conflicts as well as what we've seen in september 11th with the terrorism aattacks and the clamor to reduce the deficit to the associated press. general dempsey acknowledging the inherent risks of a smaller budget and the impact on national security, which is one of the questions joe lieberman brought up. he's an independent from connecticut. >> there is risks here, and i appreciate general dempsey in response to senator mccain's quest

we expect when the defense has a chance that he will present. but nearly two years after this horrible murder that shocked the uva community. this case of one lacrosse player murdering his sometime girlfriend. another lacrosse player, finally have some answers. second-degree murder for george huguely as well as grand larceny. he stole her laptop worth more than $200. now into the sentencing phase, the potential that this young man, 24 years old, could get as much as 60 years in prison. >> and again, they're going through that hearing and then what happens after that point? does the jury then go back and continue to deliberate over the sentencing aspect? what's your thoughts, bruce? >> reporter: yeah, the judge said he would be willing to go until 10:00 p.m. tonight. they do have to go back and after taking all this testimony, we expect that it could take a couple hours, maybe slightly more than that. they'll go back and deliberate. now whether those deliberations will take place tonight or tomorrow morning, we're going to have to wait and see. th