{"product_id":"9780815724865","title":"Healing the Wounded Giant: Maintaining Military Preeminence while Cutting the Defense Budget","description":"\u003cp\u003ePresident 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 political acrimony—even as the world remains unsettled, from Afghanistan to Iran to Syria to the western Pacific region.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eO'Hanlon explains why the large defense cuts that would result from prolonged sequestration or from deficit-reduction projects such as the Bowles-Simpson plan are too deep. But the bulk of his book represents an effort to look for greater savings than the Obama administration's 2012 proposals would allow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for the work of Michael O'Hanlon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Opportunity:\u003c\/i\u003e \"A practical and hard-headed analysis of how another Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty might be achieved\"— \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times \u003c\/i\u003e  \u003ci\u003eThe Science of War:\u003c\/i\u003e \"Timely, thoughtful, and full of insight. A signal contribution to the field.\"—General David S. Petraeus, U.S. Army\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eA Skeptic's Case for Nuclear Disarmament: \u003c\/i\u003e\"O'Hanlon expertly unravels the myriad threads of the often abstruse disputes about nuclear weapons and disarmament.\"— \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brookings Institution Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47080072839408,"sku":"9780815724865","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780815724865_p0.jpg?v=1769910038","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780815724865","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}