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Hoover Daily Report by topic: Defense Budget

August 2, 2011 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)

The three percent solution

President Obama has led from behind in the budget crisis; the president in 2013 could make more responsible choices...
July 21, 2011 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)

Out come the long knives for defense

Defense spending will be further cut; that seems inevitable in the current, beneficial, climate of reducing government spending...The question is how much, and what, to cut...
June 10, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society

The President’s Clandestine Defense Cuts

The choices President Obama is making about war powers and cuts to defense spending will leave our military less capable than when he became Commander in Chief...
June 8, 2011 | Thoughtful Ideas

U.S. Troop Strength in Iraq and Afghanistan

A deficit reduction agreement with Republicans will be easier to reach if overseas military expenditures decline in keeping with projected draw downs of U.S. forces in both countries...
May 31, 2011 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)

Can we afford the Afghan war?

...[I]t is dangerous to argue the cost of prosecuting a war that, while high, is marginal to our expenditures and by no means the driver of our debt, cannot be afforded...
April 7, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society

The Budgetary Outlook for Defense

Cuts in defense spending are nonetheless occurring and likely to continue, even if the Ryan proposals are adopted, for three reasons...
April 7, 2011 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)

Rajiv Shah cries wolf

Imagine the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff testifying that if defense funding were reduced, seven hundred thousand people in Libya would die, and tens of millions elsewhere in the world. It would be considered fear-mongering of the most repulsive kind...
February 23, 2011 | Advancing a Free Society

Fighting Insurgencies without White Elephants

Along with considering President Barack Obama’s recent budget submittal, Congress should look closely at the way funds are being spent in Afghanistan. The nation’s war expenditures should kick off a debate on how to fight insurgency-based terrorist threats...
January 27, 2011 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)

In Defense of Defense Spending

Those looking to reduce federal spending should not target the Department of Defense for cuts...
January 24, 2011 | Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)

State of the Union: Obama's chance to define the landscape of the U.S. economy and Afghanistan

The State of the Union address presents the last real opportunity before the opposition in Congress redefines the political landscape...