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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>Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Department of Defense. 05 January 2012. http://www.defense.gov/news/Defense_Strategic_Guidance.pdf]]></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>Insiders: U.S. Should Begin &#8216;Pivot&#8217; to Asia Through Diplomacy, Not Military Steps</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sara Sorcher. National Journal, 29 November 2011. http://www.nationaljournal.com/nationalsecurity/insiders-u-s-should-begin-pivot-to-asia-through-diplomacy-not-military-steps-20111128 Excerpt: President Obama recently announced steps to strengthen the architecture of an American foreign policy with new focus on the Pacific, including plans to deploy 2,500 troops to a base in Australia—all the while insisting that any reductions in U.S. defense spending will not come at the [...]]]></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>Israel vs Iran: the regional blowback</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Rogers. Open Democracy, 11 November 2011. http://www.opendemocracy.net/paul-rogers/israel-vs-iran-regional-blowback Excerpt: The near-unavoidable reality is that out of confrontation Iran will soon acquire a limited nuclear arsenal. This is because even a limited bombing of Iran will create a new dynamic where Iran is at the centre of the post-attack region; will have several new options to [...]]]></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>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>The Arab Spring and the Future of U.S. Interests and Cooperative Security in the Arab World</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[W. Andrew Terrill. Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2 August 2011. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/articles/The-Arab-Spring-and-the-Future-of-US-Interests-a-2011-08-02-SSI-Article.pdf]]></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>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>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>&#8220;Red Team&#8221; Report in 2009 Raised Concerns about Fiscal Constraints</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sebastian Sprenger writing in Inside Defense on 21 April 2011 reports that the QDR Red Team headed by Gen. James Mattis (USMC) and Andrew Marshall, director of the Office of Net Assessment, raised concerns in 2009 about the fiscal restraint effects of the deep recession on military plans to be represented in the QDR. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Statistical Irrelevance of American SIGACT Data: Iraq Surge Analysis Reveals Reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joshua Thiel. Small Wars Journal, 12 April 2011. http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/journal/docs-temp/732-thiel1.pdf Excerpt: Maneuver warfare at its core is a mechanistic endeavor and fits with a corresponding necessity of top-down hierarchies. Conversely, counterinsurgency is a more ambiguous environment that varies in its complexity and context; it is the chess match of war. It is different in every locale [...]]]></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>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>Army Operating Concept 2016-2028</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Army Training and Doctrine Command. TRADOC Pam 525-3-1, 19 August 2010. http://www-tradoc.army.mil/tpubs/pams/tp525-3-1.pdf Excerpt: This pamphlet revises the conceptual and operating focus of the Army from major combat operations to that of operational adaptability employing full-spectrum operations under conditions of uncertainty and complexity. TRADOC Pam 525-3-1 describes how future Army forces conduct operations as part of [...]]]></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>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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