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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>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>The Runaway General</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Hastings. Rolling Stone, 22 June 2010. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/119236 Excerpt: When it comes to Afghanistan, history is not on McChrystal&#8217;s side. The only foreign invader to have any success here was Genghis Khan – and he wasn&#8217;t hampered by things like human rights, economic development and press scrutiny. The COIN doctrine, bizarrely, draws inspiration from some [...]]]></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>Assessing the QDR and 2011 defense budget</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gordon Adams. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 02 March 2010. http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/gordon-adams/assessing-the-qdr-and-2011-defense-budget Excerpt: &#8230;there is a core assumption in the QDR and defense budget that near-term missions are going to last forever, particularly counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, and stability operations. The case for this projection seems to be based on the idea that Iraq and Afghanistan are the [...]]]></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>Afghanistan’s never-ending challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[H.D.S. Greenway. Boston Globe, 16 December 2009. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/12/16/afghanistans_never_ending_challenge/ Excerpt: The enemy, then as now, always rallied to the reliable call of “jihad’’ against the infidel invaders no matter who they were. Of all the tribes, those of the Pashtuns were the most feared. The motives for fighting in Afghanistan were fear, prestige, and retribution. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chimera of Victory</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gian P. Gentile. New York Times, 31 October 2009. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/31/opinion/31iht-edgentile.html?_r=1 Excerpt: History shows that occupation by foreign armies with the intent of changing occupied societies does not work and ends up costing considerable blood and treasure. The notion that if only an army gets a few more troops, with different and better generals, then within [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arms for the World: How the U.S. Military Shapes American Foreign Policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael A. Cohen. Dissent, Fall 2009. http://spi.typepad.com/files/arms-for-the-world.pdf Excerpt: &#8230; the defining characteristic of U.S. foreign policy and national security policy in the post–cold-war era is the extent to which America’s foreign policy agenda is being crafted and implemented by the military. &#8230;Whether it’s waging the war on terror or the war on drugs; nation-building in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stratfor’s analysis of US reasons for invading and occupying Iraq</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fabius Maximus, 04 March 2008. http://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/stratfor-iraq-goals/ Excerpt: Five years after the invasion most Americans do not understand why we are there, which Stratfor clearly saw even before the first airstrikes. We planned to occupy Iraq and build bases from which to project power throughout the Middle East.]]></description>
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		<title>Dead Center: The Demise of Liberal Internationalism in the United States</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles A. Kupchan and Peter L. Trubowitz. International Security, Fall 2007. Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website (printable .pdf file).]]></description>
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		<title>Hybrid War: A New Paradigm for Stability Operations in Failing States</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Margaret S. Bond, Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College, 30 March 2007. Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website (printable .pdf file).]]></description>
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		<title>The Rise of U.S. Nuclear Primacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 21:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daryl Press. Foreign Affairs, March/April 2006. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dpress/docs/Press_Rise_US_Nuclear_Primacy_FA.pdf]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas P.M. Barnett&#8217;s Glossary</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2005 17:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Pentagon Expects Long-Term Access to Key Iraq Bases</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2003 16:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thom Shanker and Eric Schmitt. New York Times, 20 April 2003. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/world/nation-war-strategic-shift-pentagon-expects-long-term-access-key-iraq-bases.html?sec=&#038;spon=&#038;pagewanted=print Excerpts: Regardless of how quickly the Americans reverse the buildup of the last several months, it is plain that since Sept. 11, 2001, there has been a concerted diplomatic and military effort to win permission for United States forces to operate from the [...]]]></description>
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