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				<title>Iran's Bluster Proves Its Weakness (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13999</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Iran this week punctuated ten days of naval exercises in the Strait of Hormuz and threats to close it with a warning to U.S. Navy ships to stay out of Persian Gulf, which requires passage through the strait. The tough talk may have temporarily juiced oil prices, but it failed to impress militarily. ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Cutting Through the Rhetoric on Defense Sequestration (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13989</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The prospect of $500 billion in cuts to the U.S. defense budget from 2013-2021 has Washington in a panic. In unveiling a barely updated military strategy yesterday, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta repeated his warning that such cuts would lead to a &#8220;demoralized and hollow force.&#8221; One o...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>How Cutting Pentagon Spending Will Fix U.S. Defense Strategy (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13822</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Washington's defense hawks are circling the wagons to defend the Pentagon's budget. The Obama administration has instructed the military to reduce planned spending over the next decade by about $400 billion, or eight percent over time. The Budget Control Act, the culmination of the debt-ceiling stan...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Cut Defense Now, Build Strategy Later (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13724</link>
				<description><![CDATA[With defense spending cuts looming, Pentagon leaders and their Beltway boosters are using strategy to stall. They argue that cuts must follow program changes that flow in turn from revised national security strategy. Cutting without a strategy, they say, means cutting foolishly and overburdening the...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>What Defense Cuts? (Commentary)</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Much deficit deal analysis has focused on why it could lead to big defense cuts &#8212; anywhere from $350 billion to $1 trillion over the next decade. Hawkish members of Congress and Pentagon officials, including new Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, are warning about the dangers of a hollow military...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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