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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>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>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>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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		<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>Advice to the Pentagon: Stop Fiddling, Come to Grips With Impending Fiscal Doom</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sandra Erwin. National Defense , 10 June 2011. http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/blog/lists/posts/post.aspx?ID=441 Excerpt: Not only are there internal disagreements within the Pentagon and the Obama administration over what the military services will be doing in the future, but factions within Congress also will be pushing individual agendas. “In Congress, you have 535 individuals and every one of them [...]]]></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>Pentagon review must aim for more than modest cuts in defense spending</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Project on Defense Alternatives, Briefing Memo #49, 25 April 2011. http://www.comw.org/pda/fulltext/1104bm49.pdf There is good reason to welcome a strategic review, as promised by President Obama on 13 April. For nearly 14 years, US defense policy has been guided by the &#8220;QDR consensus&#8221; &#8211; a set of axioms and imperatives that won adherence among defense planners [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Under-budgeted Afghan War Spending to Swallow All Pentagon “budget savings” and more</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 02:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Budget Memo by Charles Knight. 14 February 2011. For several years now White House budget projections have included a &#8220;placeholder for outyear overseas contingency operations&#8221; most of which are accounted for by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This placeholder number has been and remains $50 billion. Every year actual OCO (overseas contingency operations) spending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pentagon Resists Deficit Reduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Project on Defense Alternatives Briefing Memo 46, 26 January 2011. http://www.comw.org/pda/fulltext/1101bm46.pdf Excerpt: * Although described as a &#8220;cut,&#8221; Gates&#8217; offer would allow defense spending to rise steadily over the next five years. * Although Gates says that any bigger cuts would court &#8220;catastrophe,&#8221; all the savings plans grant DoD more money in real terms during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experts Letter on Defense Spending  to the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[18 November 2010 Dear Co-chairman Bowles and Co-chairman Simpson: We are writing to you as experts in national security and defense economics to convey our views on the national security implications of the Commission&#8217;s work and especially the need for achieving responsible reductions in military spending. In this regard, we appreciate the initiative you have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big-War Thinking in a Small-War Era: The Rise of the AirSea Battle Concept</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 00:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas P.M Barnett. China Security, October 2010. http://www.comw.org/qdr/fulltext/1010Barnett.pdf Excerpt: In sum, ending China’s free-riding is arguably more important for long-term system-wide stability than continuing to deter China’s military invasion of Taiwan. As globalization’s networks continue to expand at a rapid pace, America’s ability to play sole Leviathan to the system naturally degrades dramatically. That means, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Future Defense Budget Choices Require Clear Strategic Priorities</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daniel Goure. Early Warning Blog, Lexington Institute, 03 September 2010. http://www.lexingtoninstitute.org/future-defense-budget-choices-require-clear-strategic-priorities Excerpt: The United States cannot afford and the people will not pay for a military that can do battle with uncertainty. As a consequence of the need to do battle with uncertainty, emphasis was placed on a military that can cover all bases and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Task force: Budget fix requires extreme cuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lance M. Bacon. Navy Times, 28 June 2010. http://www.navytimes.com/news/2010/06/navy_force_cuts_062810w/ Excerpt: With an eye on diminishing budgets and rising tensions with Iran and North Korea, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead on June 24 called for continued international partnerships to hone a “just and sustainable international order.” He also continued his call for fiscal restraint, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carl Conetta speaks on strategic value of getting the nation&#8217;s financial house in order</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Debt, Deficits, and Defense: A Way Forward</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Report of the Sustainable Defense Task Force. 11 June 2010. full report: http://www.comw.org/pda/fulltext/1006SDTFreport.pdf executive summary: http://www.comw.org/pda/fulltext/SDTFreportexsum.pdf Excerpt: Putting America&#8217;s defense establishment on a more sustainable path may require curbing some of our commitments abroad, adopting more realistic military goals, or putting greater emphasis on more cost-effective instruments of power. C-SPAN video of the report release [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Deadly Current Toward Nuclear Arms</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Carroll. Boston Globe, 15 March 2010. Hosted on the CommonDreams website. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/15-5 Excerpt: &#8230; experts who warn of a coming &#8220;cascade of proliferation,&#8221; one nation following another into the deadly chasm of nuclear weapons unless present nuclear powers find a way to reverse the current. The main burden is on Russia and the United [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defense Budget Resources 2011: Critical Perspectives on the Pentagon Budget and US Military Spending</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Compiled by the Project on Defense Alternatives, 11 March 2010. http://www.comw.org/pda/budgetreview.html A compilation of critical analysis and opinion from 30 analysts and policy centers.]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Nuclear Weapons Policy &#8211; a debate with ten voices and thirteen parts</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[a compilation, Defense Strategy Review Page, 03 March 2010 . http://www.comw.org/wordpress/dsr/obama-nuclear-policy-a-debate Excerpt: This debate began when Greg Mello of the Los Alamos Study Group wrote a February 10, 2010 commentary for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. I posted his commentary on this site and wrote a response. I then invited a variety of leaders [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pentagon&#8217;s Runaway Budget</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carl Conetta. Foreign Policy in Focus, 03 March 2010. http://www.fpif.org/articles/the_pentagons_runaway_budget Excerpt: Following the collapse of Soviet power, America&#8217;s leaders set more ambitious goals for the U.S. military, despite its smaller size. This entailed requiring the armed services to sustain and extend their continuous global presence, improving their readiness and speed, increasing peacetime engagement activities, and [...]]]></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>Trillions to Burn?  A Quick Guide to the  Surge in Pentagon Spending</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carl Conetta. Project on Defense Alternatives, 05 February 2010. http://www.comw.org/pda/1002BudgetSurge.html Excerpt: The most ready comparison to America’s current circumstance are the years of the Second World War. Back then, the level of debt rose higher than it has today, but the period during which the burden exceeded 100% of GDP lasted only 4 years. Today, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An alternative to COIN: It’s time to adapt our security strategy to leverage America’s conventional strengths</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bernard I. Finel. Armed Froces Journal International, February 2010. http://www.afji.com/2010/02/4387134 Excerpt: A fundamental challenge in devising a strategy for the use of American military power is that the world has literally never seen anything like it. The U.S. today has military capabilities at least equal to the rest of the world combined. There is virtually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assessing the 2010 QDR: a guide to key issues</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Project on Defense Alternatives Briefing Memo 46, 26 January 2010. http://www.comw.org/qdr/fulltext/Assessing_the_2010_QDR.pdf Excerpt: Today&#8217;s military is stressed by having nearly 25% of the full time military overseas, including 16% in overseas operations. How does the QDR seek to reduce the stress of overseas stationing and deployment? In recent years large counter-insurgency campaigns have demanded much of [...]]]></description>
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