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Matthew Yglesias is a fellow at the Center for American Progress. His first book, with the working title Heads in the Sand: Iraq and the Strange Death of Liberal Internationalism, scheduled to be published next spring by John Wiley and co., deals with the Democratic Party's struggle to find a post-9/11 foreign policy, focusing primarily on the rise and (hopefully) fall of the liberal hawk movement.

Previously, he was a staff writer at The American Prospect and an Associate Editor at TPM Media, where he contributed to the group blogs Tapped and TPMCafe. His main blog, now at The Atlantic, has existed in various forms since the dark ages of the blogosphere in January 2002.

His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Slate, The New Republic, and The Washington Monthly, and he is a regular on BloggingHeads.tv and makes the occasional radio or television appearance.

Desperately out of touch with the American mainstream, Yglesias was born and raised in Manhattan and studied philosophy at Harvard where he was editor in chief of The Harvard Independent, a campus alternative weekly.

His latest writings can be found on the Matthew Yglesias blog.

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No More DDG-1000

By Matthew Yglesias

Jul 15 2008, 9:06 AM ET Comment

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It seems the hugely expensive DDG-1000/DD(X)/Zumwalt class destroyer is going to have its procurement halted at 2. You can see Robert Farley and the Danger Room for more on this, but I think it's a smart decision. The ship is an impressive weapons platform in search of a serious rationale at a time when the focus of the Navy's procurement budget needs to be on acquiring a sufficient number of ships to execute its core mission. It's only a shame that so much money has been sunk into this project already, money that could have been spent on more practical endeavors.

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