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Cut Personnel and Benefits

By Lawrence J. Korb | May 9, 2011

Our current defense budget is out of touch with our fiscal environment and wildly disproportionate to the threats facing this country. Here’s what incoming Secretary of Defense Panetta can do to regain some fiscal sanity.

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This article was originally published in The New York Times.

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