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by Carl Conetta<\/span>, PDA Briefing Report<\/em> #21,<\/span> 14 November 2012.\u00a09 tables. The appendix provides an additional 18 tables and charts addressing personnel, force structure, and budgets.<\/span>
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\"sustainable Argues for a new balance among the various instruments of national power reflecting today\u2019s strategic conditions.\u00a0 Taking a realistic view of security needs, the report advocates a military 20% smaller than today’s. It advances a \u201cdiscriminate defense\u201d strategy that would focus the military on cost-effective missions and save $550 billion more than official plans over the next decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Carl Conetta, PDA Briefing Report #21, 14 November 2012.\u00a09 tables. 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