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Posts Tagged Center on Strategic and Budgetary Assessments

Why Should Defense Spending Be Sancrosanct?

By | 01.26.10 | 10:11 am

Whether or not the Obama administration’s spending “freeze” is a hatchet or a scalpel — see Rachel Maddow’s grilling of vice-presidential economist Jared Bernstein yesterday — defense spending is going to be unaffected. Why in the world should that be?

Obama Announces 30K More Troops for Afghanistan

By | 12.01.09 | 10:41 pm

In a decision that may define his presidency, Barack Obama on Tuesday night announced the deployment of 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan by next summer in the hopes of bringing a deteriorating war in its ninth year to an acceptable conclusion, calling that goal vital to “the common security of More…