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DoD Should Pick Budgetary Winners Before Cuts Commence
The Defense Department will likely face significant budget cuts over the next decade, regardless of the sequestration, and should adjust its budget process to first fund future priorities and then find areas to cut, even possibly at the expense of some current readiness, says the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
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The “Crown Jewels”
The defense-budget wonks over at the independent Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments have apparently had it with costume and paste jewelry.
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To Manage Defense Drawdown, Pick the Winners First
A consensus is emerging in Washington that even if Congress finds a way to cancel the automatic budget cuts of sequestration, the Defense Department is in for more spending reductions over the next decade. A new exercise by one think tank shows the department has a lot of different ways to handle those cuts — some more thoughtful than others.
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Report Challenges Key Pentagon Spending Assumption
As the U.S. military grappled with budget cuts over the past year, one thing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta made clear was the Pentagon must avoid reductions in training and maintenance that would lower the force's readiness to fight.
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Study: Keep Investing in Spec Ops, Cyber
The Pentagon should continue to invest in special operations forces, offensive and defensive cyber capabilities, new manned and unmanned long-range strike aircraft and undersea vessels even as defense spending declines in the coming decade, according to a new think tank report.
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Budget War Game Gives Players Freedom to Make ‘Tough Choices’
The Pentagon has spent much of the past decade figuring out how to spend more each year, rather than less. Military and civilian leaders, as former Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen once said, have “lost their ability to prioritize.”