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		<title>Air Force Priorities for a New Strategy with Constrained Budgets</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Air Force. February 2012. http://www.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-120201-027.pdf]]></description>
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		<title>R2P: The Next Decade</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rachel Gerber. Policy Memo, The Stanley Foundation, 1 February 2012. http://defensealt.org/AymAmo Excerpt: On January 18, 2012, the Stanley Foundation, in partnership with the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the MacArthur Foundation, convened figures critical to the historical and contemporary evolution of the Responsibility to Protect to assess the current state of the principle and [...]]]></description>
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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>The New US Defense Strategy and the Priorities and Changes in the FY2013 Budget</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anthony H. Cordesman with Bradley Bosserman. Center for Strategic &#038; International Studies, 30 January 2012. http://defensealt.org/xpBqhn Excerpt: The US must fundamentally rethink its approach to “optional wars.” It is far from clear that it can win the Iraq War, rather than empower Iran, without a strong military and aid presence. It will decisively lose the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Panetta Releases DoD “Austerity” Budget: Pentagon Retains Most of post-1998 Increase</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[from the Project on Defense Alternatives, 26 January 2012 The future-years Pentagon base budget plan released by Secretary Panetta on 26 January 2012 foresees rolling spending back to the level of 2008, corrected for inflation.  Spending on the non-war part of the budget during the next five years (2013-2017) will be about 4% lower than [...]]]></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>Afghanistan’s Soldiers Step Up Killings of Allied Forces</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matthew Rosenberg. New York Times, 20 January 2012. http://pulse.me/s/5a33j Excerpt: American and other coalition forces here are being killed in increasing numbers by the very Afghan soldiers they fight alongside and train, in attacks motivated by deep-seated animosity between the supposedly allied forces, according to American and Afghan officers and a classified coalition report. Editor&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama to press Congress to revisit $1.2T in cuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Taylor. AP, 20 January 2012. http://defensealt.org/xN9mYD Excerpt: The White House plan, likely to reprise new taxes and fee proposals that are nonstarters with Capitol Hill Republicans, would turn off the entire nine-year, $1.2 trillion across-the-board spending cuts, referred to as a &#8220;sequester.&#8221; &#8220;We have a sequester coming less than a year from now unless [...]]]></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>Keep Pentagon Cuts in Perspective: What the administration proposes is hardly dramatic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carl Conetta. Project on Defense Briefing Memo #53, 05 January 2012. http://www.comw.org/pda/fulltext/1201bm53.pdf Excerpt: The roll back in spending plans and the actual cuts to the budget are sufficient to engage every office and program in the Pentagon. That makes for a contentious debate as well as a load of fodder for partisan politics. It will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Department of Defense. 05 January 2012. http://www.defense.gov/news/Defense_Strategic_Guidance.pdf]]></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>Defense Budget Cuts and Non-Traditional Threats to US Strategy: An Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anthony H. Cordesman and Bradley Bosserman. Center for Strategic and International Studies, 17 November 2011. http://csis.org/files/publication/111511_Defense_Resources_Threats.pdf]]></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>Going for Broke: The Budgetary Consequences of Current US Defense Strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 03:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carl Conetta. PDA Briefing Memo #52, 25 October 2011. http://www.comw.org/pda/fulltext/1110bm52.pdf Excerpt: The sharp rise in the Pentagon’s base budget since 1998 (46% in real terms) is substantially due to strategic choice, not security requirements, per se. It reflects a refusal to set priorities as well as a move away from the traditional goals of military [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strategic Adjustment to Sustain the Force: A survey of current proposals</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles Knight. Project on Defense Alternatives Briefing Memo #51, 25 October 2011. http://www.comw.org/pda/fulltext/1110bm51.pdf Excerpt: &#8230;modest changes to U.S. military strategy and global posture implemented over the next ten years can reliably offer deficit-reducing savings from the Pentagon budget ranging from $73 billion a year to $118 billion a year. To achieve the savings only requires [...]]]></description>
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