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New Pentagon Budget Offers Smaller Wars, But More of Them(0)
by Aroop Mukharji Last month, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced plans to slash the defense budget by hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade, reducing the size of the army 14% by 2022. Panetta and the Obama administration simultaneously plan to increase Washington’s fleet of armed, unmanned aircraft by almost 300%, ushering [...]
Full Story»Robert Farley Responds to Spencer Ackerman and Michael Cohen
The responses from Spencer Ackerman and Michael Cohen both boil down to the same point. Many people in the Middle East say that an Iranian nuclear weapon will tip the regional balance of power in alarming ways, and since there is “nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so,” the balance will be [...]
Michael Cohen Responds to Robert Farley on a Nuclear-Armed Iran
The following is in response to an op-ed by Dr. Robert Farley In Saturday’s Republican national security debate, GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney offered the sort of scare-mongering on Iran’s nuclear program that has become the norm in America’s foreign policy debates. “The gravest threat that America and the world faces,” said Romney, is an Iranian nuclear bomb. [...]
Spencer Ackerman Responds to Robert Farley on the Significance of an Iranian Nuke
The following is in response to an op-ed by Dr. Robert Farley I understand what my friend, Rob Farley, is trying to do in his piece about the non-impact of an Iranian nuke. He’s trying to get everyone to calm down, think clearly and, above all, prevent a war. These are laudable efforts. Yet, he [...]
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