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		<title>Truth, lies and Afghanistan: How military leaders have let us down</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis. Armed Forces Journal, February 2012. http://defensealt.org/zjV1gq Excerpt: I first encountered senior-level equivocation during a 1997 division-level &#8220;experiment&#8221; that turned out to be far more setpiece than experiment. Over dinner at Fort Hood, Texas, Training and Doctrine Command leaders told me that the Advanced Warfighter Experiment (AWE) had shown that a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regaining Our Balance: the Pentagon&#8217;s New Military Strategy Takes a Small Step</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christopher Preble and Charles Knight. Huffington Post, 20 January 2012. http://defensealt.org/ysCbHQ Excerpt: Balance depends on what you are standing on. With respect to our physical security, the United States is blessed with continental peace and a dearth of powerful enemies. Our military is the best-trained, best-led, and best-equipped in the world. It is our unstable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sequester Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DefenseTracker.com, 18 January 2012. http://defensetracker.com/web/?p=1681 Excerpt: Part of the “Doomsday Mechanism” hysteria spread by Defense Secretary Panetta and his comrade in the budget wars, Cong. Buck McKeon, has been the automaticity of the across-the-boards cuts that sequester would impose on the defense budget next January–in the likely event that the lame duck Congress and its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Need for All These Nukes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philip Taubman. New York Times, 08 January 2012. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/opinion/sunday/reducing-the-nuclear-arsenal.html Excerpt: If the president pushes back against the defenders of the old order at the Pentagon and other redoubts of the nuclear priesthood, he can preserve American security while making the United States a more credible leader on one of today’s most critical issues — containing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Leon Panetta the Right Man to be Secretary of Defense?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Winslow Wheeler. TIME Battleland, 13 December, 2011. http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/12/13/is-leon-panetta-the-right-man-to-be-secretary-of-defense/ Excerpt: Without the inclusion of war spending, the DOD base budget under the “Doomsday Mechanism” is no longer at or near its post-World War II high, but it is also not near any of the historic lows. In fact, it is roughly $38 billion above annual spending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A bandwagon for offshore balancing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen M. Walt. Foreign Policy, 01 December, 2011. http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/12/01/a_bandwagon_for_offshore_balancing Excerpt: &#8230;offshore balancing is the right strategy even when our coffers are full, provided that no peer competitors are threatening to dominate key strategic regions. Even during good times, it makes no sense to take on unnecessary burdens or to allow allies to free-ride on Uncle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insiders: U.S. Should Begin &#8216;Pivot&#8217; to Asia Through Diplomacy, Not Military Steps</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sara Sorcher. National Journal, 29 November 2011. http://www.nationaljournal.com/nationalsecurity/insiders-u-s-should-begin-pivot-to-asia-through-diplomacy-not-military-steps-20111128 Excerpt: President Obama recently announced steps to strengthen the architecture of an American foreign policy with new focus on the Pacific, including plans to deploy 2,500 troops to a base in Australia—all the while insisting that any reductions in U.S. defense spending will not come at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History shows danger of arbitrary defense cuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paula G. Thornhill. CNN, 23 November 2011. http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/23/opinion/thornhill-defense-cuts/index.html Excerpt: The nation&#8217;s leadership needs a Plan B so that a heroic assumption &#8212; or hope &#8212; about the unlikelihood of future wars does not inadvertently lead to strategic disaster. This is harder than it seems. Plan B would allow more flexibility to meet what could go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A 1% Solution Gives Pentagon Strategic Choices</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matthew Leatherman. Bloomberg Government, 21 November 2011. http://defensealt.org/veAUPs]]></description>
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		<title>A Frugal Fleet to the Rescue</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael E. O&#8217;Hanlon. New York Times, 14 November 2011. http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2011/1114_defense_budget_ohanlon.aspx Excerpt: By keeping a ship abroad for a couple of years and having two crews share that vessel as well as a training ship at home, the Navy could improve its deployment efficiency by up to 40 percent per ship, accomplishing with about three and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gen. Odierno Breaks The Code On Why Weapons Cost So Much</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Loren B. Thompson. Lexington Institute, 11 November 2011. http://www.lexingtoninstitute.org/gen-odierno-breaks-the-code-on-why-weapons-cost-so-much?a=1&#038;c=1171 Excerpt: Gen. Odierno&#8217;s November 2 remarks indicate that he realizes it isn&#8217;t just contractors who drive up the cost of programs. The cost overruns are often baked in at the beginning by the baroque demands that the acquisition system imposes on developers. These demands result in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel vs Iran: the regional blowback</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Rogers. Open Democracy, 11 November 2011. http://www.opendemocracy.net/paul-rogers/israel-vs-iran-regional-blowback Excerpt: The near-unavoidable reality is that out of confrontation Iran will soon acquire a limited nuclear arsenal. This is because even a limited bombing of Iran will create a new dynamic where Iran is at the centre of the post-attack region; will have several new options to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If You Want Peace, Stop Clamoring for War</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kelsey Hartigan. Democracy Arsenal, 10 November 2011. http://www.democracyarsenal.org/2011/11/if-you-want-peace-stop-clamoring-for-war.html Excerpt: If Romney believes that he can waltz into the Oval Office, give a few rough and tough speeches and suddenly Iran will open its doors to IAEA inspectors, well, he’s in for a rude awakening. Belligerent rhetoric won’t solve the situation with Iran. In fact, most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Factors That May Lead to War With Iran</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brian Phillips. AntiWar.com, 9 November 2011. http://original.antiwar.com/bphillips/2011/11/08/10-factors-that-may-lead-to-war-with-iran/]]></description>
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		<title>Looking to Trim the Defense Budget? Start with the QDR.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abu Muqawama. Center for New American Security, 13 October 2011. http://www.cnas.org/blogs/abumuqawama/2011/10/looking-trim-defense-budget-start-qdr.html Excerpt: Yesterday&#8217;s announcement that the Department of Defense will form a &#8220;Strategic Choices Group&#8221; to identify priorities and risks ahead of $450 billion in potential cuts to the budget is the latest example of the worthlessness of the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR). A strategic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ending our militaristic foreign policy saves money</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 01:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ethan Pollack, The Economic Policy Institute Blog, 20 September 2011. http://www.epi.org/blog/militaristic-foreign-policy-saves-money/ One of the persistent criticisms of President Obama’s fiscal plan is that it counts war spending reductions as savings. Basically, the Congressional Budget Office calculates its defense baseline in part by taking the most recent war supplemental (technically called Overseas Contingency Operations, or OCO) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DOD’s $64B Question: “Where is that $64B?”</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matthew Leatherman. The Will and the Wallet, 26 July 2011. http://thewillandthewallet.squarespace.com/blog/2011/7/26/dods-64b-question-where-is-that-64b.html Excerpt: &#8220;CBO has long said that DoD underestimates program costs including, most recently, its report on the Long-Term Implications of the 2012 Future Years Defense Program. That study concluded that “the difference between the CBO projection and DOD’s estimates for the FYDP is about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Panetta must fight four wars: Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, waste</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 03:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[editorial. Boston Globe, 30 June 2011. http://articles.boston.com/2011-06-30/bostonglobe/29722652_1_panetta-pentagon-government-discretionary-spending When Leon Panetta takes the helm at the Defense Department tomorrow, he will be facing difficult choices about the US military efforts in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. But an equally pressing — and potentially even more intractable — problem is the Pentagon’s budget and spending. Outgoing secretary Robert [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Gates&#8217; disappointing legacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Melvin Goodman. Baltimore Sun, 29 June 2011. http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-06-29/news/bs-ed-gates-20110629_1_military-spending-defense-budget-secretary-of-defense-gates Excerpt: In his recent lectures, Mr. Gates warned against any freeze in defense spending, leaving Mr. Panetta to deal with weapons systems and military missions that the United States can no longer afford. As the former director of the Office of Management and Budget, Mr. Panetta presumably [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan: For Real Savings, Make a Real Withdrawal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 02:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[William Hartung. Huffington Post, 28 June 2011. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-hartung/afghanistan-for-real-savi_b_886241.html Excerpt: There won&#8217;t be large scale savings from the winding down of the Afghan war until virtually all U.S. forces are withdrawn. Even then there are still likely to be ongoing costs for training, equipping and possibly even paying Afghan security forces, which could cost up to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The world’s best policeman</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeff Jacoby. Boston Globe, 22 June 2011. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2011/06/22/the_worlds_best_policeman/ Excerpt: &#8230;with great power come great responsibilities, and sometimes one of those responsibilities is to destroy monsters: to take down tyrants who victimize the innocent and flout the rules of civilization. If neighborhoods and cities need policing, it stands to reason the world does too. And just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unobligated Balances in the FY12 National Defense Authorization Bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 01:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Winslow Wheeler. Guest Post, 24 May 2011. The National Defense Authorization bill, H.R. 1540, will be debated by the House of Representatives this week. The bill is the work product of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC), Chaired by Congressman Buck McKeon, R. &#8211; Calif.. The Operation and Maintenance section (Title XLIII) of the bill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The U.S. Defense Budget: Get Real, Pentagon</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 13:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Defense News editorial, 16 May 2011. http://rempost.blogspot.com/2011/05/us-defense-budget-get-real-pentagon.html Excerpt: There is an old Washington saying that no money is less real than out-year money. This means that anything that is beyond the immediate spending bill is purely notional. Requirement control is a popular method of limiting the costs of new weapons, but it&#8217;s equally important to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Desperately seeking Gates&#8217; $400 billion savings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 17:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carl Conetta. Project on Defense Alternatives Note, 30 April 2011. Why is our defense spending so high and apparently out of control? Plenty of ink has been spilled addressing this question, including my own short, The Pentagon&#8217;s Runaway Budget. Andy Bacevich may get closer to the key political dynamics in Why Military Spending Remains Untouchable. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama: &#8220;saving $400 billion&#8221; &#8220;again&#8221;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 21:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Commentary 13 April 2011 (revised and updated 16 April 2011) In President Obama&#8217;s April 13th &#8220;deficit speech&#8221; he says: Just as we must find more savings in domestic programs, we must do the same in defense. Over the last two years, Secretary Gates has courageously taken on wasteful spending, saving $400 billion in current [...]]]></description>
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