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18 Dec 09

Military's problems are worse than Barno and Scales said - By Tom Ricks | The Best Defense

  • The Military does not have a clear
    mission for the future. It used to be that we win large, conventional
    wars on two fronts and hold on a third.
  • added on "and fully occupy, stabilize and hand over
    two Stability Operations" to that capability without significantly increasing
    the budget, manpower allocated and resources necessary to do so.
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10 Dec 09

Obama Administration on Open Government: More than Rhetoric? « UNREDACTED

  • To date, there have been some positive signs that the Obama Administration has been trying to shift the federal government away from the excessive secrecy that characterized the Bush 43 Administration. Many of these efforts, however, have been small steps that impact only a limited area of federal activity—although in some cases those have been important areas.  Many open government advocates, however, have been frustrated that the inauguration of President Obama did not lead to a dramatic opening up of federal agency filing cabinets (and databases).  More critically, many of the hardest secrecy issues that arose during the prior administration are still not resolved or have not been resolved favorably, from the open government perspective.
  • to proactively make its visitor records public, is the type of action that is largely in control of the White House itself and that requires little buy-in from other agencies (although we have heard that the national security establishment objected and tried to hold it up).
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04 Nov 09

The real State-Defense turf war begins | The Cable

  • The forum for this fight: a new interagency policy task force being managed by the National Security Council and being pushed along by the White House's Office of Management and Budget, which needs to start forming its fiscal 2011 budget and wants to sort out who gets the funding for a variety of foreign aid and security assistance programs.
  • The range of funds up for grabs between the different departments includes everything from coalition support funds and combatant commanders' initiative funds to foreign military financing, the Commanders Emergency Response Program (CERP) funding, and many more.
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17 Jul 08

Project Syndicate

But the Sichuan earthquake was not completely irrelevant to China’s political progress. Wen, who had been bogged down by the bureaucracy, had been seeking to counter it by expanding the media’s openness and transparency. He had sought to take advantag

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19 Feb 08

China Digital Times » Elite China Think-tank Issues Political Reform Blueprint

This is no manifesto for outright democracy. The authors say the Party must keep overall control and “elite” decision-making will help China achieve lasting economic prosperity by pushing past obstacles to economic reform. But the 366-page report give

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