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The author wishes to thank Ted Piccone, Peter Singer, John Barnett, and Ian Livingston for their assistance in the writing and editing of this book. Thanks too for additional inspiration and guidance from Martin Indyk, Ken Lieberthal, Ken Pollack, and Robert Kagan. Colleagues in other parts of Brookings have been hugely helpful too, starting with Alice Rivlin and Ron Haskins, and including also Bruce Katz, Amy Liu, Barry Bosworth, Bill Gale, Belle Sawhill, Gary Burtless, Henry Aaron, William Galston, Rebecca Winthrop, Carol Graham, Brendan Orino, Steven Pifer, and Bruce Riedel. Outside of Brookings, Maya MacGuineas and Bob Reischauer have as always taught me a great deal about the budget and defense, as have Richard Betts, Stephen Biddle, Michael Berger, Wayne Glass, Lane Pierrot, Fran Lussier, David Mosher, Rachel Schmidt, Ellen Breslin-Davidson, Jack Mayer, and Bob Hale. I would like to thank the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, as well as Herb Allen, Marshall Rose, Casey Wasserman, Mala Gaonkar, members of the Brookings national security industrial base working group, and several anonymous donors for important support. xv Acknowledgments ...

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