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Blueprints for a future military are piling up fast in Washington, D.C. It seems like not a week goes by that a new report isn’t released by one think tank or another with the hope of grabbing the attention of defense aides with the incoming Obama administration. While some of these reports are eminently discardable, others actually have some value, if not for their prescriptions, then at least for who wrote the report.

An example of the latter is a new report titled “Building a Military for the 21st Century,” put out by the Center for American Progress, a largely Democratic staffed think tank that is also pulling double duty with the Obama transition team. For that reason alone it might carry more weight than others. So let’s unpack this one.