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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>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>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>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>Huh, did we miss something?  Secretary Gates&#8217; $400 billion in savings can&#8217;t be located.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 17:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pentagon&#8217;s Phantom Savings: $330B Claim Erodes as Programs Reappear Marcus Weisgerber. Defense News, 16 May 2011. http://rempost.blogspot.com/2011/05/pentagons-phantom-savings-330b-claim.html Excerpt: Nearly 40 percent of that sum [$330 billion] is going straight back into U.S. military programs that replicate the canceled ones, and it&#8217;s unclear where another 10 percent came from at all, according to a Defense News [...]]]></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>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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		<title>How will the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform balance the budget in 2015?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Commentary There are at least as many reasons to think that significant real reductions in defense spending will be hard to achieve as there are reasons to doubt that significant revenue increases will be found or that substantial reductions in entitlement spending will happen. “Political realities” are indeed daunting for any of the options [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Security Isn’t Cheap</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adam J. Hebert. Air Force Magazine, November, 2010. http://www.airforce-magazine.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/2010/November%202010/1110edit.aspx Excerpt: &#8230;ill-advised calls to cut the Pentagon budget follow as predictably as the tides. Without credible analysis of strategy or requirements, critics are once again declaring defense spending to be out of control. Editor&#8217;s Comment: In his editorial Security Isn’t Cheap Adam J. Herbert cites the [...]]]></description>
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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.public.navy.mil/usff/documents/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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