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| Subject: Smoke and Mirrors?: Pentagon Wants the Smallest Army since World War II Mon Feb 24, 2014 1:39 am | |
| Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is set to unveil a new, proposed Pentagon budget on Monday that considerably reduces the size of the United States military. According to officials who spoke to The New York Times, the budget would "aggressively push the military off the war footing adopted after the terror attacks of 2001."
The proposal has come about for two main reasons: President Obama's to end the nation's extended wars in Iran and Afghanistan, and the federal government's fiscal woes. The resultant downsizing would make the U.S. capable, according to anonymous officials who spoke to the paper, "capable of defeating any adversary, but too small for protracted foreign occupations." In other words, great defense, but a little warier on offense.
More: http://www.thewire.com/politics/2014/02/pentagon-wants-smallest-army-world-war-ii/358428/ _________________ Anarcho-Capitalist, AnCaps Forum, Ancapolis, OZschwitz Contraband “The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.”-- Max Stirner "Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the government officials committing it." -- Kurt Hofmann |
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