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		<title>The Defense Build-Down is On, But Fantasies Remain</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/05/17/the-defense-build-down-is-on-but-fantasies-remain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 12:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marine General John Allen, commander of forces in Afghanistan, is planning for the end – the withdrawal of U.S. forces, expecting to leave behind a small training force, but saddling the U.S. taxpayers with at least $2 billion a year to pay for the Afghan security force.  Better deal than we have now, at roughly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=74217&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Army and Special Forces: The Fantasy Continues</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/05/03/the-army-and-special-forces-the-fantasy-continues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 12:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Army, it would appear, and, perhaps the nation, has learned nothing from its unhappy experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan.  This morning’s New York Times reports that Army Chief of Staff General Ray Odierno is setting off to restructure large pieces of his ground force to do in other regions, especially Africa, what they have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=73206&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Defense Budgets: The &#8220;Drole de Guerre&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/04/19/defense-budgets-the-drole-de-guerre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The next seven months is going to be fun for bloggers, journalists, and other remnants of the chattering class, but it won’t shed much truth.  Wait until November for that. The latest rounds have been fired this week. The “phony war” part was posted by House Armed Services Committee chairman &#8212; and prophet of doom [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=71966&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>Huntington Ignalls / Chris Oxley</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[The first piece (weighing 800 tons) of the flight deck for the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford moves into place April 7 at a Virginia shipyard. Structural work on the $12 billion carrier is now 75% complete.]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>The Defense Budget Non-Debate</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/04/05/the-defense-budget-non-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, as he issued his political budget, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan tried to pull the “Generals are not telling us the honest truth” rabbit out of the hat. The Wisconsin Republican was suggesting that either the military leadership was lying &#8212; in saying they could live with $487 billion less over the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=70696&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>Photo By Chris Maddaloni/CQ Roll Call</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan unveils his budget plan last week]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>The Promise &#8212; and The Danger &#8212; in Panetta&#8217;s Budget</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/01/27/the-promise-and-the-danger-in-panettas-budget/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leon Panetta rolled out some of the first details on the new FY 2013 defense budget on Thursday. It&#8217;s the first since FY 1998 to actually decline in nominal terms (though FY 2011 and FY 2012 were “real” cuts, as they did not keep up with inflation). The Secretary didn’t have much choice about the base [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=64948&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reaping Non-Existent Savings From Defense</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/09/19/reaping-non-existent-savings-from-defense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The President&#8217;s plan for deficit reduction, sent today to the Super Committee, collects 25% of its overall spending reductions by bringing the troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan. Bringing them home is probably a good thing, but the budget savings the administration claims will only appear when porcine animals are airborne. The proposal bags over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=56819&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Defense Appropriations and the Slippery Slope of War Spending</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/09/14/defense-appropriations-and-the-slippery-slope-of-war-spending/</link>
		<comments>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/09/14/defense-appropriations-and-the-slippery-slope-of-war-spending/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Senate Defense appropriators have made a good first step towards returning discipline to the defense budget in their mark for FY 2012. According to Sen. Inouye, DOD will have the same resources for FY 2012 they had for FY 2011, zero budget growth, or a flat line. This confirms what DOD still needs to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=56452&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Twilight of Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Stabilization</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/09/08/the-twilight-of-post-conflict-reconstruction-and-stabilization/</link>
		<comments>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/09/08/the-twilight-of-post-conflict-reconstruction-and-stabilization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reporting in Government Executive suggests that the days of US planning and intervention to straighten out other countries in the Arab world may, mercifully, be coming to a close. In Iraq, it seems the government we helped install is reluctant to invite 14-18,000 American troops to remain, despite Gen. Allen&#8217;s apparent desire to do so. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=56450&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Here We Go Again: Telling the Libyans What to Do</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/08/25/here-we-go-again-telling-the-libyans-what-to-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We just can&#8217;t help ourselves. No sooner did it look like Khadafi was on his way out then the promoters of &#8220;post-conflict reconstruction and stabilization&#8221; and &#8220;stability operations&#8221; were on the march. Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations, told the world that &#8220;NATO has to pick up the pieces.&#8221; He called for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=55560&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Defense Discipline: Good; Trigger Cuts: Bad</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/08/05/defense-discipline-good-trigger-cuts-bad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Adm. Mullen can hardly be expected to step up to the mike and say they can live with $800-900 billion fewer dollars than the Department currently projects it would like to have for defense. The didn&#8217;t disappoint yesterday. They can live with the roughly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=54570&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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