The New York Times - FEB. 23, 2014
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel plans to shrink the United States Army to its smallest force since before the World War II
buildup and eliminate an entire class of Air Force attack jets in a new
spending proposal that officials describe as the first Pentagon budget
to aggressively push the military off the war footing adopted after the
terror attacks of 2001.
The
proposal, described by several Pentagon officials on the condition of
anonymity in advance of its release on Monday, takes into account the
fiscal reality of government austerity and the political reality of a
president who pledged to end two costly and exhausting land wars. A
result, the officials argue, will be a military capable of defeating any
adversary, but too small for protracted foreign occupations.
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