barackobama.com - 10/14/2008
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Rebuild the Military for 21st Century Tasks: As we rebuild our armed forces, we must not simply recreate the military of the Cold War era. Obama and Biden believe that we must build up our special operations forces, civil affairs, information operations, and other units and capabilities that ...
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Obamanomics
Firedoglake —
... 5) He wants to expand the military. Yes, this is an economic policy because if you want to cut costs there are very few places in the federal government to do it. The easiest place to do it without effecting too many normal citizens is actually the military. If you put the military off-limits for significant cuts, there are no easy other wins that add up to real money and no easy pay-go offsets. ...
Putting the Pentagon on the Auction Block
Antiwar.com Original —
... "to increase the size of the Army and Marine Corps." Barack Obama agrees , but has been more specific. He has long touted plans, echoing the Pentagon's desires, to "increase the size of the Army by 65,000 troops and the Marines by 27,000 troops." Just attracting this many recruits would cost a small fortune. This year, the Army had to ...
Wars, Weapons, and Warnings
Daily Kos —
... Obama has laid a very solid foundation to handle security issues on almost every front. He has a good transition team, and it looks like he'll be putting a lot of the policy he laid out in various campaign white papers to use. ...
On The Clinton Appointment: More Facts, Less Drama, Please!
Daily Kos —
... and defense sections of Obama's website, they would have known that Obama's choice of Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State makes perfect sense. ...
12/2: Outrage From The Left? Not Exactly...
Blogometer —
... and defense sections of Obama's website, they would have known that Obama's choice of Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State makes perfect sense." GATES: Not Everyone Is Sold... Several liberal bloggers are critical of Obama's decision to ask Gates to stay on as Def. Sec.: On the other hand, ...
No Soup for You! (Please)
Obsidian Wings —
... There are, unfortunately, a couple of Obama campaign pledges that should temper the already timid hope that Obama intends to meaningfully alter the national security landscape. First, Obama has suggested that he plans to continue the expansion of the size of the active duty military. From the campaign website: ...
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