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PositionOFF THE NEWS - Barack Obama - Brief article

After the publication of the Obama Administration's new "Defense Strategic Guidance" proposal, many private U.S. national security strategists note that the President's new agenda bears a lot of resemblance to the "Revolution in Military Affairs" approach proposed by Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush's first defense secretary. Rumsfeld suggested decreased levels of defense spending and a lean, highly trained, highly technological, special operations-oriented military that avoids "nation-building." Of course, in 2003, the Bush White House and the Central Intelligence Agency killed Rumsfeld's approach. If...

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