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Adams House: Anna Katherine Barnett-Hart, Hattie J. Bluestone, Joanna W. Bronowicka, Julie A. Duncan, Audrey Kim, Matthew M. Spellberg, Alice Speri, Olga Zhulina
...drives those who believe in the China threat up the wall. As AEI's Donnelly writes, "as the air defense and air combat capabilities of other nations, most notably China, increase, the demand for F22s would likewise rise." For years, as defense analyst and occasional Pentagon consultant Thomas P.M. Barnett writes in his new book Great Powers: America in the World After Bush, the promoters of what he calls Washington's "Leviathan" force have used the prospect of war with China over Taiwan or possibly North Korea as justification for the purchase of "big ticket items...
...years, the Pentagon has been frustrated by China's secrecy over its military budgeting and its intentions. The U.S. brass simply doesn't believe Beijing when it says its defense spending in 2008 was only $60 billion. It's double or three times that, Pentagon planners believe. Even Barnett concedes that China "goes out of its way to hide what it procures and then slyly trots out its big ticket items every so often so our satellites can get a few shots of them...
...Unlike Obama, Bush never had a reputation for being bookish. But Robert Barnett, the Washington superlawyer who represented Bush in the deal (he also represents Obama in his publishing ventures) describes 43 as an in-demand, dedicated author. "There were multiple publishers who expressed strong interest in the book," he told TIME. "The President started working on the book two days after he left office. He has worked on it virtually every day, and has already written 30,000 words...
...told me in the beginning of the year that this game might mean something, I would have slapped you right in the face. Go ahead. Build a time machine. Tell me. Then see what happens. Superstar Alex Barnett looks to lead the Big Green to a trouncing of the lowly Brown Bears, with an outside shot at a share of the title on the line. Amazingly...