Word: brasses
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...years, a fierce debate about Bejing's military intentions has raged among defense intellectuals and the brass inside the Pentagon. Hawks insist that the Chinese are seeking to drive the U.S. military out of the Pacific, and make it Beijing's lake rather than what it has been for decades, an American pond. They point to episodes such as the March 8 incident involving the U.S.S. Impeccable, a Navy surveillance ship that was harassed while cruising 75 nautical miles off the coast of Hainan. Five Chinese vessels surrounded it and tried to snatch its towed array radar from the water...
...Beijing, Vice Admiral Wu. There, the two talked up the two nation's cooperation in combating Somali pirates, but that wasn't the real point of the meeting. For 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...
...starters, Harvard’s top brass should reduce their own salaries. This goes for the president, the provost, the deans of the faculty and College, and all of their top managers. During his last year as president, Lawrence H. Summers earned just under $600,000. In general, deans make good money too: according to her federal disclosure forms, former Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan earned $437,000 last year. Pay cuts of $50,000 to $100,000 for each senior manager would show that they too are feeling the pain of the downturn and could save well over...
...Behind Enemy Lines: Civilians and those in uniform have traditionally been at odds when it comes to procurement. So Gates is spending this week visiting the services' war colleges, trying to convince the future brass that his plan is the right one for the country and the military. He let them know that, so far, his strategy seems to be working. "I've been somewhat surprised, frankly, by the lack of a stronger reaction to the proposals that I've made," he told Air Force students Wednesday. "But I anticipate that the next few weeks will be fairly exciting...
...though, there's a lot more fighting to be done. The U.S. won't engage the Taliban from the U.S.'s current position of weakness in the face of the insurgents' momentum. First, it will try to reverse that momentum on the battlefield. And the Pakistani brass faces the reality that after more than seven years of war, the Taliban has morphed and grown in ways that make turning it into a Pakistan proxy increasingly improbable. Still, despite the less forgiving posture of the Obama Administration and absent a resolution of six decades of conflict with India, Pakistan...