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		<title>Coming Soon to Your Town: Sequestration Road Tour</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/04/27/coming-soon-to-your-town-sequestration-road-tour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mackenzie Eaglen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans will celebrate Memorial Day next month, and honor those who’ve died while serving to protect the rest of us. But some concerned members of Congress are going to skip their hometown barbeques so they can hit the road: they&#8217;ll be warning of a looming half-trillion-dollar cut in defense spending over the next decade (atop [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=72750&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCredit>Bill Clark / CQ Roll Call)</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[Rep. Randy Forbes is planning a road tour to detail the damage sequestration would do to the nation's defenses]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>Airpower Nearing the Edge</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/03/23/airpower-nearing-the-edge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mackenzie Eaglen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;March Madness&#8221; isn&#8217;t just something experienced during the NCAA tournament. In March of last year, Air Force leaders dubbed the unprecedented global demand for air power with the same name. American air power is on the edge. As my co-author Doug Birkey of the Air Force Association describes it, America&#8217;s air-power capabilities are approaching &#8220;coffin corner.” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=69594&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Military Commanders Fighting for Resources as Mission Demands Grow</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/03/15/stopkony-okay-with-what/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mackenzie Eaglen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Military commanders are lining up to tell Congress they don&#8217;t have enough resources to accomplish their many missions as ongoing defense budget cuts catch up to those in uniform and hinder mission success. President Obama committed roughly 150 U.S. military forces to help fight the Lord’s Resistance Army last year. The problem is that the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=69130&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sequestration: A Big Word – And a Bigger Problem That Demands Action Now</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/02/28/sequestration-a-big-word-and-a-bigger-problem-that-demands-action-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mackenzie Eaglen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is not much policymakers in Washington can agree about lately. As evidenced by the lack of a Congressional budget resolution to fund the government that is on a continuing resolution autopilot, to the Super Committee&#8217;s failure to agree on what to cut, it is hard to find bipartisan consensus. This is especially startling given [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=67859&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama&#8217;s Defense Budget Falling Flat on Capitol Hill</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/02/16/president-obamas-defense-budget-falling-flat-on-capitol-hill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mackenzie Eaglen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday morning, the Defending Defense coalition—The American Enterprise Institute, The Heritage Foundation, and the Foreign Policy Initiative—will host members of Congress discussing the negative consequences of the Obama administration’s defense guidance and budget. The event will feature speakers such as Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ), Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), House Armed Services Committee Chair Howard “Buck” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=66603&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Talk is Cheap in Washington When It Comes to Politicians and the U.S. Military</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/01/25/talk-is-cheap-in-washington-when-it-comes-to-politicians-and-the-u-s-military/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mackenzie Eaglen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, President Obama opened his State of the Union address by referencing the sacrifices and courage of America’s military personnel as they return home from combat. The President’s rhetoric was moving, but unfortunately, words are simply words and have not been fully backed up with action that supports America’s heroes. A new AEI study takes a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=64755&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Super Committee Failure Hits Military Hard</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/12/06/super-committee-failure-hits-military-hard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mackenzie Eaglen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Politicians can shrug off the congressional Super Committee’s failure to agree on meaningful deficit reduction. To them, it’s just another budget gimmick that didn’t pan out. But for the U.S. military, the Super Committee fizzle creates debilitating and long-term problems. The act establishing the committee providing that, if it failed to meet its deficit reduction [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=61435&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Military Mystery: World’s Most Capable Fighter Jet Struggles to Stay Airborne</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/10/25/military-mystery-world%e2%80%99s-most-capable-fighter-jet-struggles-to-stay-airborne/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mackenzie Eaglen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[America’s Air Force has again grounded portions of its stealthy fleet of F-22 Raptor tactical fighter jets. This comes on the heels of a recent four-month grounding of the fleet earlier this year. While the call for accountability is certainly warranted, Air Force leaders appear to be doing everything possible to keep the pilots safe [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=59113&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Panetta Tells Super Committee to “Do the Right Thing”</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/10/13/panetta-tells-super-committee-to-%e2%80%9cdo-the-right-thing%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Testifying before the House Armed Services Committee today, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta directly challenged the Congressional “Super Committee” to “do the right thing.”  In Panetta’s view, the “right thing” is to solve the debt crisis by going after the drivers of America’s bulging debt.  That would be the Big 3 entitlements &#8211; not the defense budget. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=58596&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Report Examines &#8220;Worst Case&#8221; Scenario for the U.S. Military</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/09/30/report-examines-worst-case-scenario-for-the-u-s-military/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mackenzie Eaglen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The debt ceiling deal passed this summer contains a sequestration “trigger.” If the Super Committee fails to agree on a plan to meet its deficit reduction targets&#8211;or if Congress fails to approve the plan, the legislation stipulates that huge amounts of discretionary spending funds will be automatically sequestered&#8211;i.e., taken off the table. That would mean [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=58171&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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