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No Free Lunch

America needs to start facing hard economic choices.

Tin Cup Diplomacy

We are again in the early stages of a new international system, but without a unifying challenge to raise foreign affairs resources much above 1 percent of the federal budget.

Commentary

The Right Cuts

Controversy on Obama's new defense strategy is much ado about nothing.

Samuelson and Dionne: The Politics of Denial

The status quo cannot hold. The country must move past denial and grapple with a crisis that should have been addressed long ago.

Assessing the 2011 Defense Cuts

How much defense-budget cutting is too much?

Blogs

Strength vs. Spending

We spend too much on our military because we ask our troops to do too much. To spend less, we must do less.

Defense Cuts Still on the Table, Not in the Bank

The debt deal is done. Now the real fighting begins.

Gauging the Mood of Congress on Military Spending

Get ready for another round of fake military cuts. Someone has to subsidize the social programs of our rich allies, after all.

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February 13, 2012