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A confluence of ideas and events have come together to make it hard for the Defense Department to make its case for avoiding across the board cuts, a top official said. Neither Democrats nor Republicans have a solid center of support for defense as had been the case in the past, Ashton Carter, Deputy Secretary of Defense, yesterday told the Aspen Security Forum. Also there’s a competing priority--fiscal discipline for the country. And the part of government spending easy to…
