Healing the Wounded Giant: Maintaining Military Preeminence while Cutting the Defense Budget

by Michael E. O'Hanlon

Book Overview

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President Barack Obama survived a tenuous economy and a toxic political environment to win re-election in 2012, but the bitter partisan divide in Washington survived as well. So did the country's huge fiscal deficit. in this, the latest in a long line of Brookings Institution analyses of the defense budget, Michael O'Hanlon considers how best to balance national security and fiscal responsibility during a period of prolonged economic stress and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815724853
• ISBN13: 9780815724858
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.2" x 8.7"