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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>Opposition Grows To Next Stage Of U.S. Military Presence In Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abubakar Siddique. Radio Free Europe, 25 October 2011. http://www.rferl.org/content/afghan_opposition_grows_to_next_stage_of_us_military_presence/24371170.html Excerpt: Experience has shown us that foreign forces cannot bring peace to Afghanistan. We will have peace when we remove the causes of conflict among [Afghan] people,&#8221; [protest organizer] Mozhdah said. &#8220;One of the key reasons for fighting here is that we don&#8217;t trust each other. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. CNO: For Navy, Asia Is Priority</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dan de Luc. Agence France-Presse, 19 October 2011. http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?c=SEA&#038;s=TOP&#038;i=8003142 Excerpt: &#8220;Asia will be clearly a priority and we will adjust our operations accordingly,&#8221; Admiral Jonathan Greenert, chief of naval operations, told reporters in a teleconference. The Navy now constantly maintains an aircraft carrier &#8211; either the Kitty Hawk or the George Washington &#8211; in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Panetta to U.S. Army: Branches Must Cooperate on Cuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Tilghman. Defense News, 12 October 2011. http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?c=LAN&#038;s=TOP&#038;i=7935114 Excerpt: Panetta said the Army should expect reserve-component troops to be a vital part of the future force. &#8220;As we draw down from these wars, we need to keep the Guard and the Reserve operational and gaining experience. This is the best investment we&#8217;ve made over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intelligence on President Obama&#8217;s Forthcoming Fundamental Defense Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 18:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles Knight. Project on Defense Alternatives Note, 12 May 2011. Word is that two principals in the production of 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review will be charged with producing the &#8220;fundamental&#8221; defense review President Obama ordered in his April 13th speech on the deficit. They are Kathleen Hicks, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Strategy and Force [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Red Team&#8221; Report in 2009 Raised Concerns about Fiscal Constraints</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sebastian Sprenger writing in Inside Defense on 21 April 2011 reports that the QDR Red Team headed by Gen. James Mattis (USMC) and Andrew Marshall, director of the Office of Net Assessment, raised concerns in 2009 about the fiscal restraint effects of the deep recession on military plans to be represented in the QDR. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News Analysis:  Obama&#8217;s Proposed $400 billion Security Spending Cut</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday April 13th 2001, President Obama announced an initiative to roll back planned security spending by $400 billion over the next 12 years. The nature of these &#8220;savings&#8221; is not yet clear. Nor is it clear how much will be subtracted from the Pentagon&#8217;s spending plans. Nonetheless, Secretary Gates and the Chiefs are not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Army Budget Share Will Grow</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 05:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greg Grant. DoD Buzz, 09 April 2010. http://www.dodbuzz.com/2010/04/09/army-budget-share-will-grow/ Excerpt: In DOD’s funding forecasts, future costs to fight the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are vastly understated as are personnel and healthcare costs. “Reset” costs for Army and Marine equipment returning from Iraq are also vastly understated, as all are new aircraft programs, e.g. F-35, tanker. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Air Force Strategists Say US Should Unilaterally Cut Nukes By 90 Percent</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Max Bergmann. The Wonk Room, 17 March 2010. http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/03/17/air-force-strategists-say-us-should-cut-nukes/ Excerpt: Noting that during the Cold War “the actual marginal utility of additional forces was quite small,” the authors conclude that a significantly smaller arsenal of nuclear weapons will be more than enough to maintain an effective deterrence and to assure allies without any cost to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;ve met the enemy in Afghanistan, and he&#8217;s changed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roy Gutman. McClatchy Newspapers, 14 March 2010. http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/03/14/90083/weve-met-the-enemy-in-afghanistan.html Excerpt: Today, although the United States and more than three dozen NATO allies and other countries are supporting Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the Taliban dominate a growing swath of territory, and their power trumps the government&#8217;s in three-quarters of the country. Although they&#8217;re often portrayed as mindless [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why The Nuclear Review Is Delayed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marc Ambinder. The Atlantic Online, 26 February 2010. http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/02/why-the-nuclear-review-is-delayed/36660/ Excerpt: &#8230; the release of the long-awaited Nuclear Posture Review will be delayed well into March because the basic issue &#8212; when, and why, the U.S. would use nuclear weapons, remains a contentious subject of debate.]]></description>
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		<title>Continuing and sometimes deteriorating nature of the delays at Lockheed-Martin’s F-35 production facility</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Winslow Wheeler. Straus Military Reform Project, 24 February 2010. Under the Freedom of Information Act, the Straus Military Reform Project has obtained almost two years of monthly reports from the Defense Contract Management Agency on Lockheed-Martin’s production of the F-35 “Joint Strike Fighter.” The most recent of those reports show deterioration from previous reports in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop the Iraq madness!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nir Rosen. The Best Defense, 23 February 2010. http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/02/23/nir_rosen_stop_the_iraq_madness Excerpt: Iraqis on the street are no longer scared of rival militias so much, or of being exterminated and they no longer have as much support for the religious parties. Maliki is still perceived by many to be not very sectarian and not very religious, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summary of the DoD Fiscal 2011 Budget Proposal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DoD summary prepared for press briefing, 01 February 2010. Hosted on the Commonwealth Institute website. http://www.comw.org/qdr/fulltext/FY11budgetsummary-dod.pdf]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Requests Nuclear Weapons Spending Surge</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greg Mello. Los Alamos Study Group, 01 February 2010. http://www.lasg.org/press/2010/press_release_1Feb2010.html]]></description>
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		<title>Preview of the Pentagon’s Fiscal Year 2011 Budget Request</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris Hellman, National Priorities Project, 29 January 2010. Sources and Methodology: Much of the information contained here comes from various media accounts or discussions with analysts and congressional staff. Introduction: The Obama Administration will release its budget request for Fiscal Year 2011 on Monday, February 1. At the same time, the Defense Department is expected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eyes on the Budget: Anticipating the February 1 Documents</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gordon Adams. Budget Insight, 29 January 2010. http://thewillandthewallet.squarespace.com/blog/2010/1/29/eyes-on-the-budget-anticipating-the-february-1-documents.html Excerpt: In the security assistance arena, look for a major assertion of direct DOD responsibility for training and equipping foreign security forces (called the “security sector”) on a global basis, consistent with the budget request forecast above. This might include the creation of new DOD “Security Force [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Draft QDR: DoD Alters Force Planning Construct</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John T. Bennett. Defense News, 27 January 2010. http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=4473825&#038;c=AME&#038;s=TOP Excerpt: The new force-shaping model was derived from what the draft report calls the Pentagon&#8217;s four defense strategy priorities: &#8220;prevail in today&#8217;s wars; prevent and deter conflict; prepare to succeed in a wide range of contingencies; and preserve and enhance the force.&#8221; Sources say the priorities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analysts: Defense budget likely to receive increased scrutiny</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Megan Scully. Government Executive, 26 January 2010. http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0110/012610cdpm1.htm Excerpt: &#8220;There is no way &#8212; no way &#8212; that the defense budget will be immune to deficit reduction,&#8221; Stan Collender, a former House and Senate Budget committee aide&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Draft Pentagon review calls for &#8220;hard choices&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters, 21 January 2010. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60K6QK20100121]]></description>
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		<title>Pentagon budget seeks to kill 7 arms programs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters, 20 January 2010. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60K07I20100121 Excerpt: The documents, labeled as &#8220;draft&#8221; and &#8220;pre-decisional,&#8221; showed continued strong funding for shipbuilding, fighter and electronic warfare aircraft and other weapons programs. They also pointed to continued effort to beef up intelligence programs, unmanned systems, cyber security, and enhanced efforts to counter biological, chemical and nuclear weapons.]]></description>
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		<title>Pentagon wins turf war with State over military aid</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Josh Rogin. The Cable, 20 January 2010. http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/01/20/pentagon_defeats_state_in_turf_war_round_one Excerpt: One big chunk of funding at issue is in foreign security assistance, known as the &#8220;1206&#8243; account, which could total about $500 million next year. This is money used to do things like military training and joint operations with countries outside of Iraq and Afghanistan, such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lockheed Martin F-35 Flew 10% of Planned 2009 Tests</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tony Capaccio. bloomberg.com, 19 January 2009. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&#038;sid=a0UQXRzi1Fhc Excerpt: Sixteen of 168 planned flights were completed in fiscal 2009, the second year of flight testing, according to Michael Gilmore, the Pentagon’s director of weapons testing. The program calls for 5,000 sorties to prove the aircraft’s flying capabilities, electronics and software. The development phase must now be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forward Observer: F-35 Challenges Gates</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:48:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[George C. Wilson. Government Executive, 19 January 2010. http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0110/011910cdam1.htm Excerpt: &#8220;There ain&#8217;t no education in a second kick of a mule.&#8221; for more on the F-35 see: http://www.comw.org/wordpress/dsr/gates-calls-for-delay-in-pentagon-purchases-of-lockheed-f-35s-capaccio]]></description>
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