Defense Winners and Losers


	Defense Winners and Losers

Brian Wingfield

2-27-2009 3:30 PM

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Brian Wingfield says:

Now that President Obama has set a timetable for the wind-down of troops in Iraq and released his first budget overview, it's worth looking at who might win and lose under his defense spending plan. We recently took a stab at it here:

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/0202/038.html

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