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War in an Age of Deficits In the News

War in an Age of Deficits

As the nation moves forward with operations in Libya, questions of how these actions will affect our fiscal health will and should be unavoidable, write Lawrence Korb and Laura Conley.

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Lawrence J. Korb, Laura Conley

Restoring Tricare Report
As a result of unprecedented cost growth in the Tricare system, nearly 10 percent of the baseline defense budget now goes to providing medical care for active duty, reserve, and National Guard troops and their dependents, as well as military retirees of all ages and their dependents. (AP)

Restoring Tricare

The cost of military health care could eventually begin to divert funding away from other crucial national security initiatives, write Lawrence Korb, Laura Conley, and Alex Rothman.

Lawrence J. Korb, Laura Conley, Alex Rothman

Defense Cuts Are Mandatory Article
A V-22 Osprey tilt rotor aircraft taxies behind the leader during a mission in western Iraqi desert. Canceling this program is one initiative that could help the Pentagon could save around $358 billion by the end of 2015. (AP/Dusan Vranic)

Defense Cuts Are Mandatory

Lawrence J. Korb, Laura Conley, and Alex Rothman examine the need to take meaningful action on runaway defense spending.

Lawrence J. Korb, Laura Conley, Alex Rothman

Obama’s Pentagon Cuts Not What They Seem In the News

Obama’s Pentagon Cuts Not What They Seem

Lawrence Korb and Laura Conley show what kind of defense spending cuts we should be making in CNN Money.

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Lawrence J. Korb, Laura Conley

Top 10 Fiscally Responsible Defense Cuts Report
Terminating the expeditionary fighting vehicle, pictured here, and updating the Corps’s current armored amphibious vehicles would save an estimated $9 to $10 billion over the next decade. (AP/Pvt. Daniel Boothe)

Top 10 Fiscally Responsible Defense Cuts

A look at 10 ways to reduce defense spending, while safeguarding our vital national security interests.

Lawrence J. Korb, Laura Conley, Alex Rothman

Scale Back the Defense Budget Article
One budget-saving goal is the endorsement of  further reductions in defense spending over the next five years. The maintenance of 11 U.S. aircraft carriers, such as the USS Carl Vinson pictured here, seems questionable when "in terms of size and striking power, no other country has even one comparable ship.” (AP/U.S. Navy)

Scale Back the Defense Budget

Lawrence Korb and Laura Conley outline three budget-saving measures the president should address in his State of the Union address next week.

Lawrence J. Korb, Laura Conley

We Can’t Afford to Continue “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Article
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen gestures during a briefing at the Pentagon. Adm. Mullen said that quickly repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is the “right thing to do.” (AP/Kevin Wolf)

We Can’t Afford to Continue “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

Congress should pass the fiscal year 2011 National Defense Authorization Act and end a policy that hurts our moral authority and national security, write Laura Conley and Alex Rothman.

Laura Conley, Alex Rothman

Strong and Sustainable Report
An expeditionary fighting vehicle launches into the water. (U.S. Marine Corps)

Strong and Sustainable

Lawrence J. Korb and Laura Conley propose a set of defense cuts that can cut our deficit while still maintaining national security.

Lawrence J. Korb, Laura Conley

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