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Hard Choices: Responsible Defense in an Age of Austerity
Type of Publication: ReportDate: 10/03/2011Hard Choices: Responsible Defense in an Age of Austerity, a report authored by CNAS experts LTG David W. Barno, USA (Ret.), Dr. Nora Bensahel and Travis Sharp, outlines four budget cut scenarios and evaluates possible trade-offs among force structure, end strength, procurement and overhead.
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Perspectives on the President’s Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Request for the U.S. Department of Defense
Date:
March 6, 2012
10:00am - 12:00pm
Location:
608 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC
CNAS Senior Advisor and Senior Fellow LTG David Barno, USA (Ret.) testifies before the Senate Budget Committee in an open hearing on Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. on "Perspectives on the President's FY 2013 Budget Request for the U.S. Department of Defense." Additional witnesses include Dr. Michael E. O'Hanlon, Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution and Dr. James Jay Carafano, Director of The Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation.
For more information, please visit www.budget.senate.gov.
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Lieutenant General David W. Barno, USA (Ret.)
Senior Advisor and Senior FellowGeneral Barno, a highly decorated military officer with over 30 years of service, has served in a variety of command and staff positions in the United States and around the world, to include command at every level. He served many of his early years in special operations forces with Army Ranger battalions, to include combat in both the Grenada and Panama invasions.
In 2003, he was selected to establish a new three-star operational headquarters in Afghanistan and take command of the 20,000 U.S. and Coalition Forces in Operation Enduring Freedom. For 19 months in this position, he was responsible for the overall military leadership of this complex political-military mission, devising a highly innovative counterinsurgency strategy in close partnership with the U.S. embassy and coalition allies.
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