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ASPI suggests
Posted By Harry White on May 20, 2013 @ 12:30
Michael O’Hanlon from Brookings has some ideas on how the US might spend its defence dollars given current fiscal constraints in his book Healing the Wounded Giant, including cutting ground forces, buying half of the planned 2,500 F-35s, and suggesting the Navy can get by with as low as 260 ships, rather than the planned 286. O’Hanlon and David Petraeus have an op-ed along the same lines as well.
Mr Abe’s dramatic rata-tat-tat of policy shifts has excited and enthused [the Japanese people]. His approval ratings, like the stockmarket, are booming.
Timor-Leste deserves praise for the success with which it has implemented pragmatic policies designed to bring rapid stability following the 2006 crisis. Promoting confidence at home and abroad is important for transforming any post-conflict economy. But it likely has a very limited window of opportunity during which to make investments – both political and financial – that might mitigate the still real risks of an eventual return to conflict.
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[1] Image: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/6350724383_dcc01c5b99_z.jpg
[2] Healing the Wounded Giant: http://www.brookings.edu/research/books/2013/healing-the-wounded-giant?utm_campaign=Foreign%2520Policy&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=8495774&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_tU91-v1f-IlGrpMpCrBCw0UeUPKpoGGGOVAz-5GCsCmCvXFbrSjasT5qF4bmRO8WWQ_lDRRHdnfaGwHLevZKyQ_lR0w&_hsmi=8495774
[3] op-ed: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/david-petraeus-and-michael-ohanlon-a-new-american-renaissance/2013/04/07/d821bf0e-9d52-11e2-a941-a19bce7af755_story.html?wprss=rss_homepage
[4] here is an article: http://nbr.org/publications/element.aspx?id=650#.UZl-96Iwcdo
[5] success the second time around: http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21578052-shinzo-abe-shaking-up-japans-economy-seems-different-man-one-whose-previous
[6] 2013 India poll: http://www.lowyinstitute.org/publications/india-poll-2013
[7] report on stability in Timor-Leste: http://www.crisisgroup.org/~/media/Files/asia/south-east-asia/timor-leste/246-timor-leste-stability-at-what-cost.pdf
[8] this piece on basing at the Cocos (Keeling) Islands: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/not-a-lot-atoll/
[9] Peter Jennings thoughts on pay parking for the ADF: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/defence-budget-give-the-dog-a-bone/
[10] jobs page: http://www.aspi.org.au/aboutaspi/jobs.aspx
[11] U.S. Pacific Fleet: http://www.flickr.com/photos/43397645@N06/6350724383