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Saturday, December 8, 2012

Why Not Push the Pentagon off the Fiscal Cliff?

Why Not Push the Pentagon off the Fiscal Cliff?

The Pentagon is bracing for the fiscal cliff. This week the White House Budget Office directed it to plan for $500 billion in cuts it may have to make over the next ten years if cliff-averting negotiations fail. The negotiations may of course not fail, but it's still worth asking: in the event that our military resources really did shrink significantly, how much damage would that do to our national security? Here's my initial estimate: zero. http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/12/why-not-push-the-pentagon-off-the-fiscal-cliff/266026/

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