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Conservative Groups Launch Campaign To Boost Defense Spending

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Friday, October 15th, 2010

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By Emelie Rutherford A group of conservative think tanks launched their assault on defense-budget cutters yesterday, unveiling a briefing paper on Capitol Hill just weeks before key political and budgetary decisions are due to be made. The Defending Defense Project's event was a coming-out of sorts for the group that made itself known last week in a Wall Street Journal op-ed article by Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Edwin Feulner, president of the Heritage Foundation, and…

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