The Congressional newspaper The Hill reports that Congressional authorizers want to put their stamp on funding for the global war on terror, most of which has been in the form of emergency supplementals. So far, appropriators have been the only deciding voice. And, newly in-control Democrats may push hard to get the Administration to put war funding in the regular budget submission. Even some key Republicans have said enough is enough over running a war with continuous emergency measures.
Special-ops aviators, a physicist from the intelligence community, and an enlisted Marine with decades of deployments: U.S. Space Command’s military and civilian leaders who spoke May 7 were as likely to come from strictly space backgrounds as not. These are some of the day’s insights from inside the command, which…