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		<title>Treaty Signings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Krepon. Arms Control Wonk, 08 April 2010. http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/2690/treaty-signings Excerpt: Despite claims to the contrary, New START does not inhibit the growth of U.S. conventional power projection capabilities that, unlike nuclear weapons, are militarily useful on battlefields. Nor will New START impede ballistic missile defense programs&#8230; Editor&#8217;s Comment: &#8230; and that is why, despite the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speech by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mullen at Kansas State University</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[as delivered by Adm. Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas Wednesday, 03 March 2010. http://www.jcs.mil/speech.aspx?ID=1336 Excerpt: I’ve come to three conclusions – three principles – about the proper use of modern military forces: 1) &#8230; military power should not – maybe cannot – be the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Serious About Reform: Budget Challenges Will Force Hard Choices</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Carl Conetta and Charles Knight. Defense News, 21 February 2010. During the past decade, the U.S. Defense Department has enjoyed a rise in its budget unprecedented since the Korean War. With President Barack Obama&#8217;s fiscal 2011 budget request, it is up nearly 100 percent in real terms from its post-Cold War low. But few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Path to Nuclear Security: Implementing the President’s Prague Agenda</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remarks of Vice President Biden at National Defense University &#8211; As Prepared for Delivery, 18 February 2010. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-vice-president-biden-national-defense-university Excerpt: Now, as our technology improves, we are developing non-nuclear ways to accomplish that same objective. The Quadrennial Defense Review and Ballistic Missile Defense Review, which Secretary Gates released two weeks ago, present a plan to further [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop at Start</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barry Blechman. New York Times, 18 February 2010. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/opinion/19blechman.html Excerpt: Here’s how a global nuclear disarmament treaty could work. First, it would spell out a decades-long schedule for the verified destruction of all weapons, materials and facilities. Those possessing the largest arsenals — the United States and Russia — would make deep cuts first. Those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Obama disarmament paradox</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greg Mello. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 10 February 2010. http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/op-eds/the-obama-disarmament-paradox Greg Mello is the executive director and co-founder of the Los Alamos Study Group. ______________ Last April in Prague, President Barack Obama gave a speech that many have interpreted as a commitment to significant nuclear disarmament. Now, however, the White House is requesting one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quadrennial Defense Review Fails to Match Resources to Priorities</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lawrence J. Korb, Sean Duggan, and Laura Conley. Center for American Progress, 04 February 2010. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/02/qdr_fail_resource.html Excerpt: The QDR &#8230; does not prioritize the missions that the military must be prepared for. The document states that “successfully balancing [DOD’s priorities] requires that the Department make hard choices on the level of resources required as well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gates Calls for Delay in Pentagon Purchases of Lockheed F-35s</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tony Capaccio. Business Week, 07 January 2010. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-01-07/gates-calls-for-delay-in-pentagon-purchases-of-lockheed-f-35s.html Excerpt: One recent study agreed with a similar one from a year earlier that predicted a 2 1/2 year delay in development beyond the current target of October 2014 and an added cost of $16.5 billion. The new estimate recommended the Pentagon add $314 million to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Budget Moves Buoy Defense Industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Loren B. Thompson. Lexington Institute, 14 December 2009. http://www.lexingtoninstitute.org/budget-moves-buoy-defense-industry Excerpt: First, even before President Obama decided to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, the administration had already decided to spend more on overseas contingencies in 2011 that the $130 billion it planned to spend in 2010. Second, Jason Sherman of insidedefense.com reported this month that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why they hate us?: How many Muslims has the U.S. killed in the past 30 years?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen M. Walt. ForeignPolicy.com, 30 November 2009. http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/11/30/why_they_hate_us_ii_how_many_muslims_has_the_us_killed_in_the_past_30_years Excerpt: Yet if you really want to know &#8220;why they hate us,&#8221; &#8230; the fact remains that the United States has killed a very large number of Arab or Muslim individuals over the past three decades. Editor&#8217;s Comment: And no amount of &#8220;public diplomacy&#8221; or &#8220;American narrative&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building on 2 blunders: the dubious case for counterinsurgency</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen M. Walt. Foreign Policy, 16 November 2009. http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/11/16/building_on_2_blunders_the_dubious_case_for_counterinsurgency Editor&#8217;s Comment Walt makes a fundamental strategic point. The Bush wars involved operational and grand strategic errors, so why institutionalize a shift in defense planning that in effect has the U.S. military prepare for more strategic errors by our leadership? Why not opt to correct the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ambassador Eikenberry&#8217;s Cables on U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Karl W. Eikenberry. The The New York Times has published two cables authored by the U.S. Ambassador to Kabul addressed to Secretary of State Clinton. The first is dated 06 November 2009 and is entitled &#8220;COIN Strategy: Civilian Concerns&#8221;. The second is dated 09 November 2009 and is entitled &#8220;Looking Beyond Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan&#8221;. http://documents.nytimes.com/eikenberry-s-memos-on-the-strategy-in-afghanistan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fixing a Failed Strategy in Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gilles Dorronsoro. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, November 2009. http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/fixing_failed_strategy.pdf Excerpt: &#8230;the International Coalition, with its limited resources and diminishing popular support, should focus on its core interests: preventing the Taliban from retaking Afghan cities, avoiding the risk that al-Qaeda would try to reestablish sanctuaries there, pursue a more aggressive counterinsurgency strategy in the North, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping the aircraft carrier fleet afloat</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christopher M. Lehman. Boston Globe, 14 October 2009. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/10/14/keeping_the_aircraft_carrier_fleet_afloat Editor&#8217;s Comment: It has been several decades since simply counting the numbers of weapon systems or platforms has been anything like a reliable measure of military power. In a modern military effective power is achieved by the combination of well-trained men and women, advanced communications, agile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How I learned to stop worrying and live with the bomb: neither terrorists nor rogue states like North Korea are likely to use nuclear weapons</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Lind. Salon, 13 October 2009. http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/13/nuclear_weapons/index.html Editor&#8217;s Comment: Even if the nuclear abolition movement grows in power and is able to convince the governments of the U.S., France, and Great Britain to move toward abolishing their nuclear weaponry, there is little chance that other great powers such as Russia, China, and India will follow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Strategy of Tactics: Population-centric COIN and the Army</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gian P. Gentile. Parameters, Autumn 2009. http://www.carlisle.army.mil/USAWC/Parameters/09autumn/gentile.pdf Excerpt: Population-centric COIN may be a reasonable operational method to use in certain circumstances, but it is not a strategy. Editor&#8217;s Comment: Agreed! COIN is a collection of tactics. What is missing in Afghanistan is a strategy with any credible chance of success &#8230; despite the lip-service to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A clear and present danger:  QDR must recognize need for two-war construct</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mackenzie Eaglen and Jim Talent. Armed Forces Journal, October 2009. http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2009/10/4262271 Editor&#8217;s Comment: Before launching into their polemic calling for even more investments in the military sector (on top of 40+% real growth in the last decade for the Pentagon base budget) Eaglen and Talent usefully point out that the forthcoming QDR is, in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alien: How Operational Art Devoured Strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Justin Kelly and Michael James Brennan. Strategic Studies Institute, Army War College, 16 September 2009. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/download.cfm?q=939 Excerpt: Recent western military exploits in Iraq, Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and East Timor, all represent, if not strategic failure, at least failures of strategy. The question we need to ask ourselves is whether this weakness is endemic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Navy May Extend Some F/A-18s in Wait for F-35C</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Antonie Boessenkool. Defense News, 03 August 2009. excerpt: “They must, they absolutely must, enter the fleet on time and on budget,” [Adm. Gary Roughead, chief of naval operations] said, stand­ing before a green-painted F-35C at Lockheed Martin’s assembly plant here. “If we don’t get this airplane on time, we’re going to realize a gap in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the QDR ‘a PR stunt’ or a sincere effort to reconcile posture and budget with strategy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Charles Knight Last fall I attended a seminar at MIT entitled “Analytical Tools for the Next Quadrennial Defense Review” given by senior analyst who had worked on several QDRs. The QDR is an every-four-years Pentagon study mandated by Congress and meant to review how closely the defense posture and its supporting budget fits with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Air Guard Needs Newer Aircraft, Director Says</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jon Soucy. American Forces Press Service, 29 July 2009. Editor&#8217;s comment: The Project on Defense Alternatives has recommended that the USAF reduce its tactical combat fleet by two wing equivalents. This reduction would allow for a considerable number of tactical aircraft to move over the the Air National Guard thus improving its fleet age composition. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global Poll Finds Widespread Belief that Afghans Want NATO Forces Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WorldPublicOpion.org. 23 July 2009. Editor&#8217;s comment: It is striking that almost 80% of Pakistanis want NATO and the US out of Afghanistan. This is evidence that they do not view the US/NATO counter-terror, counterinsurgency and stabilization campaign in Afghanistan as a likely solution to their troubles in Pakistan, but rather as a cause of those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s time to scrutinize the Pentagon</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles Knight, Carl Conetta, and James P. McGovern. Minuteman Media, 1 January 2009. excerpt: Any adjustment in national security planning is bound to be controversial &#8211; and it should be. But we can no longer afford to shy away from that controversy. Our current circumstance demands that we enter into a broad and deep discussion [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 12:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles Knight. Project on Defense Alternatives Commentary, July 2007. excerpt: It is my best guess that we won&#8217;t see an Army/Marine Corps invasion of Iran or Pakistan or North Korea. If the &#8216;new center&#8217; in Washington was seriously considering interventions abroad that might require deploying up to 3 million troops, they would need to start [...]]]></description>
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