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Budgeting for Foreign Affairs and Defense hosts Major General McKenzie

January 25, 2013

 

On January 22nd the Budgeting for Foreign Affairs and Defense program hosted Major General Kenneth F. McKenzie, Marine Corps Representative to the Quadrennial Defense Review.  Russell Rumbaugh, director of the BFAD program, then moderated a panel discussion featuring MajGen McKenzie, Dr. Maren Leed, Senior Adviser at CSIS, and Benjamin Friedman, Research Fellow at the Cato Institute. A complete recording of the event is available here, and news reports regarding the event are provided below.

 

Kill The QDR? Rep. Randy Forbes Says Still Time To Fix It (Sydney J. Freedberg Jr., AOL Defense)


2-star QDR rep touts deterrence, readiness (Gina Harkins, Marine Corps Times)

 

Budget Uncertainty Trumps Quadrennial Defense Review (Sandra I. Erwin, National Defense Magazine)

 

Marine QDR Representative Stresses Support for Corps’ Force Structure Plan, Asia-Pacific Strategy (Otto Kreisher, Seapower Magazine)

 

Hagel could use QDR to reshape Pentagon (Kate Brannen, Politco)  

 

QDR Talk (Lee Hudson, Inside Defense)