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Obama Wants To Combine Budgets Of Pentagon, State and USAID
The Obama administration is considering creating a unified national security budget that would combine elements of the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development with the Pentagon, according to a draft copy of a long-awaited foreign policy strategy review shared with Congress this week.Citing the joint planning required between U.S. military and civilian agencies in Iraq and Afghanistan, the proposal is one of several that would put the U.S. diplomatic corps and its lead global humanitarian agency on a stronger national security footing, according to a draft of the State Departments first-ever Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, or QDDR. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered the review last year to be modeled after the Pentagons four-year review, intended as a strategic guide for appropriators. It is part of an ongoing White House-led effort to link development and national security. Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-11-18 |
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