Cut Personnel and Benefits

Lawrence Korb offers recommendations for reducing defense spending that over time will enable savings of $100 billion per year beginning in 2015.

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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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