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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>A bandwagon for offshore balancing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen M. Walt. Foreign Policy, 01 December, 2011. http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/12/01/a_bandwagon_for_offshore_balancing Excerpt: &#8230;offshore balancing is the right strategy even when our coffers are full, provided that no peer competitors are threatening to dominate key strategic regions. Even during good times, it makes no sense to take on unnecessary burdens or to allow allies to free-ride on Uncle [...]]]></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>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>If You Want Peace, Stop Clamoring for War</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kelsey Hartigan. Democracy Arsenal, 10 November 2011. http://www.democracyarsenal.org/2011/11/if-you-want-peace-stop-clamoring-for-war.html Excerpt: If Romney believes that he can waltz into the Oval Office, give a few rough and tough speeches and suddenly Iran will open its doors to IAEA inspectors, well, he’s in for a rude awakening. Belligerent rhetoric won’t solve the situation with Iran. In fact, most [...]]]></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>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>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>Steps Toward Defense Budget Discipline</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steps Toward Defense Budget Discipline, a Hill briefing sponsored by Taxpayers for Common Sense and the Project on Defense Alternatives, 7 June 2011, video by the Stimson Center. Featuring: Amy Belasco, Carl Conetta, Benjamin Friedman, Matthew Leatherman, Laura Peterson and Winslow Wheeler.]]></description>
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		<title>Deficit-Buster Proposals Won’t Work Without Changes in U.S. Defense Strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sandra Erwin. National Defense Magazine, 22 November 2010. http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=255 Excerpt: “The Defense Department’s biggest weakness is its budget strategy: the absence of strategic choice,” says Gordon Adams, American University professor who authored the defense recommendations in the Domenici-Rivlin proposal that was presented by former Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) and White House Budget [...]]]></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>Independent QDR Panel Calls For Increasing Size Of Navy, Bolstering Procurement</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jason Sherman, Inside Defense, 26 July 2010. A bipartisan independent review of the Obama administration&#8217;s 20-year blueprint for the Defense Department calls for increasing the size of the Navy to a 346-ship fleet and increasing the U.S. military&#8217;s posture in the Western Pacific to counter China&#8217;s growing influence in the region, according to a draft [...]]]></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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		<title>Debt, Deficits, and Defense: A Way Forward</title>
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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>A New Way Forward: Rethinking U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 02:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Report of the Afghanistan Study Group, June 2010. http://www.afghanistanstudygroup.org/?page_id=27 Excerpt: The bottom line is clear: Our vital interests in Afghanistan are limited and military victory is not the key to achieving them. On the contrary, waging a lengthy counterinsurgency war in Afghanistan may well do more to aid Taliban recruiting than to dismantle the group, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama’s National Security Strategy: How Will It Be Managed?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 01:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Laura A. Hall. Budget Insight, 27 May 2010. http://thewillandthewallet.squarespace.com/blog/2010/5/27/obamas-national-security-strategy-how-will-it-be-managed.html Excerpt: On the military side, no clear prioritization of missions. As in the QDR, the NSS provides no priorities among military missions, but repeats a long shopping list that could drive force structure and budget expectations even higher than they are now.]]></description>
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		<title>Tomorrow&#8217;s Disarmament Debates</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 19:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christopher Ford. Remarks presented to a side event at the 2010 Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, New Paradigms Forum, Hudson Institute, 20 May 2010. http://www.newparadigmsforum.com/NPFtestsite/?p=250 Excerpt: &#8230; as present-day disarmament debates shift from a focus specifically upon nuclear weaponry to a broader focus upon full-spectrum military asymmetry, the disarmament [...]]]></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>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>From Iraq, Lessons for the Next War</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alissa J. Rubin. New York Times. 31 October 2009. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/weekinreview/01RUBIN.html]]></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>AfPak-Iraq: Wrong War, Wrong Thinking. The United States faces mounting problems in the three leading conflict-zones of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Rogers. Open Democracy, 29 October 2009. Hosted on the Commondreams website. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/03-6 Excerpt: If there is a way ahead, it rests not on short-term calculations about troop numbers but on a larger reassessment by the Barack Obama administration of the entire US security posture in the middle east and southwest Asia. This will have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t put all the security eggs in the al Qaeda basket</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caroline Wadhams and Colin Cookman. Foreign Policy, 15 October 2009. http://afpak.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/10/15/why_the_us_shouldnt_put_all_its_security_eggs_in_the_al_qaeda_basket]]></description>
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		<title>The key issue in Afghanistan isn’t the number of troops we send, it’s the mission that they’re given – and that’s why the military doctrine and strategy of “counterinsurgency” is totally inadequate as a guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Vega. The Democratic Strategist, 12 October 2009. http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/_memos/tds_SM_Vega_Afg.pdf]]></description>
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