Just how tough is it going to be for the Pentagon and other national-security agencies to cut $400 billion from their spending between now and 2023? Those are the marching orders President Obama has given his tea, led by budget-cutting expert Leon Panetta, who has just moved from the CIA to the Pentagon. John Nagl of the Center for a New American Security and your Battlelander discuss the challenge with Dave Barno, retired Army lieutenant general, and Nora Bensahel, a military strategist formerly at the Rand Corp. and now at CNAS.
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[1] http://www.cnas.org/barno
[2] http://www.cnas.org/bensahel
[3] http://www.cnas.org/nagl
[4] http://www.cnas.org/node/16
[5] http://www.cnas.org/node/19
[6] http://www.cnas.org/node/23
[7] http://www.cnas.org/asia
[8] http://www.cnas.org/iran
[9] http://www.cnas.org/specialops
[10] http://www.cnas.org/node/3647
[11] http://www.cnas.org/iraq
[12] http://www.cnas.org/military
[13] http://www.cnas.org/voices
[14] http://www.cnas.org/node/5652