TY  - BOOK
AU  - O'Hanlon,Michael E.
ED  - Project Muse,
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Healing the wounded giant: maintaining military preeminence while cutting the defense budget 
SN  - 9780815724865
AV  - UA23 .O386 2013
U1  - 355/.033573 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Baltimore, Maryland
PB  - Project Muse
KW  - United States
KW  - Department of Defense
KW  - Appropriations and expenditures
KW  - National security
KW  - Finance
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 2009-
KW  - Military policy
KW  - Armed Forces
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE; Includes bibliographical references and index; American military strategy and grand strategy -- Army and Marine Corps force structure -- Air Force and Navy Force structure -- Modernization -- Nuclear weapons, missile defense, and intelligence -- Military compensation and Pentagon reforms -- Conclusion-and the implications of prolonged sequestration or the equivalent -- Appendix
N2  - President Barack Obama survived a tenuous economy and a toxic political environment to win re-election in 2012, but the bitter partisan divide in Washington survived as well. So did the country's huge fiscal deficit. in this, the latest in a long line of Brookings Institution analyses of the defense budget, Michael O'Hanlon considers how best to balance national security and fiscal responsibility during a period of prolonged economic stress and political acrimony --even as the world remains unsettled, from Afghanistan to Iran to Syria to the western Pacific region. O'Hanlon explains why the large defense cuts that would result from prolonged sequestration or from deficit-reduction projects such as the Bowles-Simpson plan are too deep. But the bulk of his book represents an effort to look for greater savings than the Obama administration's 2012 proposals would allow
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780815724865/
ER  -