[bestintxas]

Yet at same time, Obama is growing the size of Homeland Security.

He sees his threat to power will come from the inside, not from without.

We are warned

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Hey, let's shrink Hegel's pay, expenses, perks and pensions to pre-WWII levels.

That would be fair, right?

[Old Sarge]

Will they drill with brooms, like before?

[DJ MacWoW]

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[oh8eleven]

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is due to decrease the size of the U.S. Army
No he's not, he's just following orders from the CiC.

[BuffaloJack]

Shrinking the Army to the size it was pre-WW2, when the population of the US was 125 million instead of today’s 300 million. Is really making it 1/3 as small on a per capita basis.

[BuffaloJack]

Shrinking the Army to the size it was pre-WW2, when the population of the US was 125 million instead of today’s 300 million. Is really making it 1/3 as small on a per capita basis.

[12th_Monkey]

Brilliant move! China and Russia are pussycats after all.

[Seaplaner]

um, doesn’t the (alleged) Congress have a say, here?

[muir_redwoods]

Hey, what could go wrong?

[nascarnation]

Well since the regime has “fixed” the economy and unemployment (at least official stats) is no longer a problem, obviously there will be plenty of jobs for ex-GIs.

/s

[Lazamataz]

We knew who Chuck Hagel was, before he was rammed down our throats.

I'm surprised he's not closing the military outright.

[lacrew]

This really puts the squeeze on the officer ranks.

Its an ‘up or out’ system already. Now the number of slots to move ‘up’ into will be reduced.

The only officers who make it through the promotion gauntlet will be the ones who are pure as the wind driven snow, having never stepped out of line or tested the system in any way. No risk takers need apply...just yes men/women.

And I guarantee one of the pre-requisites for promotion will be slavish devotion to the new gay policies and notions that your average woman can be a Navy SEAL. I can see officers at the War College eschewing papers on troop maneuvers, and writing political science studies on the benefits of gay artillerymen.

[GraceG]

Yet at same time, Obama is growing the size of Homeland Security.

“Weneed a National Security Force, just as big as the millitary”

So people thought that this was impossible due tot he fact that they would have a lot of growning, but didn;t realize that if you shrink the one the amount of growing for the latter would be reduced....

[Lion Den Dan]

Shrinking the military makes it easier to identify and retain those who are loyal to the regime and head off a mutiny of Constitutionalists.

[CodeToad]

“Yet at same time, Obama is growing the size of Homeland Security. He sees his threat to power will come from the inside, not from without.”

There is the real story in all this. All the excuses for cutting DoD are being applied to DHS.

[Salvation]

For another attack?

A repeat of Pearl Harbor?

[SandRat]

Lib/Pacifist/DemoCRAPS do this every time after a War and crash us right in to another War and Unprepared to defend ourselves.

[CrazyIvan]

“the smallest since 1940...............”

And what happened in 1941?

[thejokker]

An important consideration is the effects of military spending on our economy. Most if not all technology has resulted from military spending.

This is about throwing money at the poor instead of investing in programs that will lead to advances in technology/jobs/the middle-class.

[minnesota_bound]

When the next war comes Hagel will blame Georg Bush.