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The Right and Wrong Ways to Cut Defense Spending

CNN’s Fareed Zakaria has a column today arguing for defense cuts and lauding the budget deal’s “sword of Damocles” over the Pentagon budget. Zakaria argues that the U.S. military should not be exempt from budget scrutiny and, in that sense, his argument is unobjectionable.  But he ignores …

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Written by John Guardiano on Thursday August 4, 2011

U.S. Must Not Defeat Itself In Afghanistan

The cost of winning the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan is quite modest and quite manageable. The cost of losing, by contrast, could prove catastrophic for the United States. Say this for Congressional Democrats: When it comes to national defense and foreign policy, they are at least …

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Written by John Guardiano on Monday June 13, 2011