Care to state exactly where those cuts will be made?
Donald Rumsfeld was crucified for making the totally truthful and factual statement that “you go to war with the army you have-—not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.
Obama will guarantee we go to war (China, Iran, wherever) with the army we will have - ill equipped, undermanned, and looking for some poor Rumsfeld to blame for the problems Obama caused.
The good news here, if any, is that it gives conservatives one more campaign issue in 2012, like in the Carter years.
The bad news is that a lot of Americans in and out of uniform will die for it.
You stop procuring so many items that you don't need just to feed the machine, or pay off your defense contractor buddies. Stop destroying perfectly good equipment just to buy more. You push out some of the old admin guys who are just redundant. If they have to hide secret dollars through inflated purchasing, I understand, but not $50 billion worth. Trust me they can do the same as they do now with less. I am about as committed to the military as I can be without serving myself. Every military person I have ever known talks about the waste. It is endemic and it needs to be stopped.