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Posts Tagged Todd Harrison

Just in Time for the Discretionary Freeze, New Report Says Defense Spending Is Unsustainable

By | 01.26.10 | 1:41 pm

And to think, I was just mentioning Todd Harrison of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments in this post about the Obama administration’s questionable decision to exempt defense and homeland security spending from its desired budget freeze. Here’s Harrison’s just-released paper (PDF) about the unsustainability of current More…

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…