Massive Budget Cuts Would Redefine U.S. Military -- US News and World Report
The Pentagon’s plan includes cutting 80K soldiers, 10K Marines and all A-10 ‘Warthogs.'
The American military is preparing to go under the knife, bracing for proposed cuts that would turn it into a force almost unrecognizable from its post-Cold War ancestor that endured roughly 13 years of protracted ground war in the Middle East.
Citing massive budget constraints at home, as well as growing and ill-defined threats across the globe, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel on Monday previewed the budget he will present to Congress next week that seeks to find more than $75 billion in immediate savings due to automatic cuts known as sequestration, on top of other planned defense spending cuts.
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Commentaries, Reactions, And Analysis On The Pentagon's Defense Budget Proposals
Get real, Hagel tells nation in proposing military cuts -- CNN
Chairman Disputes Notion of Declining U.S. Military -- US Department of Defense
Dempsey on compensation cuts: 'We're trying to do this once, get it right and then move out.' -- Marine Times
Pentagon Officials Say They’re Willing to Assume Risks of a Reduced Army -- New York Times
Chuck Hagel’s plan to shrink military criticized -- Robert Burns, AP
Battle begins on defense budget spending; Obama plan seeks to curtail army to pre-WWII size -- CBS
Congress skeptical about plan to shrink military -- Washington Post/AP
Ayotte: Decision To Cut A-10 'Serious Mistake' -- Defense News
Congress skeptical about plan to shrink military -- AP
Congress Signals Tough Fight for Pentagon Plan -- AP
US Lawmakers Push Back Against DoD Budget Plans -- Defense News
Defense firms see shares rise after Pentagon budget plan is detailed -- L.A. Times
President Obama Is Fighting Cuts to the Military, Not Demanding Them -- Kevin Drum, Mother Jones
Hagel's Pentagon budget plans for new 'realities' and fewer ground wars -- Spencer Ackerman, The Guardian
Robots, Drones and Subs: Where Should the Military Invest? -- Gil Aegerter and Tracy Connor, NBC
A First Step Toward Reining in the Pentagon Budget -- Ryan Alexander, US News and World Report
Lowry: A military budget of delusion -- Rich Lowry, Salt Lake Tribune/NRO
Pentagon cuts aren't dangerous; they're overdue -- Jay Bookman, AJC
Pentagon Budget-Cutting Plans Sure To Draw Flak -- Mark Memmott, NPR
Pentagon cuts are reasonable, but nation's budget is still in trouble: expert -- Michael O'Hanlon, New York Daily News
Now is not the time to cut the world's finest army again -- Washington Examiner
Musings on the Hagel Budget -- Information Dissemination
Cutting the Army will make it stronger -- Michael Desch, CNN
Opponents of Pentagon-Budget Cuts Just Played the Entire Media -- Connor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic
Weapons Cuts In 2015 Budget Leave Soldiers, Marines At Risk -- Loren Thompson, Forbes
Hagel's Military Budget Cuts Will Start a Fight in the Republican Party -- Matthew Cooper, Newsweek
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