Today Defense Secretary Gates announced his changing priorities for how the $534 billion defense budget should be spent.
50% of the money in the budget should go to programs meant to counter conventional threats, about 10% to programs useful only in irregular war and 40% to programs that are useful to both.
In other words, the Pentagon [...]

The surge worked. That seems to be an undeniable truth right now, with some simple implications. For example, McCain’s support should grow for supporting the surge and Obama should look bad for not supporting it. However, it is not that simple.
First of all, now that the region is relatively stable, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, [...]

Today Politico had an article with some very interesting statistics in it. For example:
Only 31 percent of Americans say McCain is the candidate “better able to improve economic conditions,” according to a recent CBS/New York Times Poll, compared with 51 percent for Obama. That lead has held stable for months.
And even though McCain promises [...]

Today’s New York Daily News has an interesting article about Obama’s foreign policy. In particular, it discusses how Obama has refused to factor in the fact that the Surge is working into his 16-month plan for withdrawal.

This seems interesting considering that Obama has received enormous criticism for his recent “flip-flopping” or as we like to [...]

Recently Senator McCain has gone in depth on some foreign policy issues and analysts bored with the horse race between Hillary and Obama are beginning to give some of his positions a lot of scrutiny. It seems as good a time as ever to update our old records of McCain’s relations to the market’s defense [...]

General Petraeus appeared in the Senate to be interviewed about the Iraq war recently. Here’s an excellent take on the presidential candidates and the recent happenings on Capitol Hill. We at electionstocks would like to remind you that when issues regarding defense such as the Iraq war come to the front page of the news, [...]

There is a widespread feeling that the Iraq war will probably be a campaign issue in the general election. It has waxed and waned as an issue among Democrats.
Stratfor, a private intelligence agency, just published a look back on the five years of the Iraq war. While it takes a few minutes to [...]

Using a technique known as the Copernicus method we can say, with 60% certainty, that we will by out of Iraq within 1-4 years. What does this have to do with anything you ask? For one thing, we will have to pull out of Iraq eventually, and according to this rather soon. Will 1-4 [...]

This is a quick overview of some basic impacts that the current presidential candidates positions on not only the Iraq War but also homeland security in general could have into the homeland defense sector of the market. The defense sector is composed largely of, but not limited to, many of the companies listed in our [...]

That used to be one of the ultimate fashion faux pas. Romney’s slip during a S. C. Chamber of Commerce meeting:
“Actually, just look at what Osam — Barack Obama — said just yesterday. Barack Obama, calling on radicals, jihadists of all different types, to come together in Iraq. That is the battlefield,” Romney said, [...]