Healing the wounded giant : maintaining military preeminence while cutting the defense budget

By - O'Hanlon, Michael E.

Floor - Floor 1

Published - Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2013]

ISBN 10 - 0815724853

ISBN 13 - 9780815724858

Book Status - 3 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - United States. Department of Defense--Appropriations and expenditures.

Shelf No - 19

Call Number - 355.0335 OHA

Physical Description - xv, 100 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes - Includes bibliographical references and index.

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The author considers the best balance between fiscal responsibility and national security in a period of continued economic stress. He believes that savings in the range of what Obama proposed in 2012 are the right goal for defense cost reductions in the coming years. He explains why cuts of the magnitude required by sequestration, and those suggested by the Bowles-Simpson and the Rivlin-Domenici plans for greater fiscal health, are too deep on strategic grounds, particularly in light of America's rebalancing toward Asia and ongoing turbulence in the Middle East.

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