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Experts: Pentagon Strategic Plan Would Produce Aging, Hollow Military
Free Beacon ^ | 8/6/13 | Daniel Wiser

Posted on 08/06/2013 3:41:20 PM PDT by Nachum

The recommendations in the Department of Defense’s latest strategic review would produce both a hollow and aging military unable to engage in simultaneous conflicts involving U.S. interests, defense budget experts said Tuesday.

The experts spoke at the Brookings Institution about the Pentagon’s efforts to prepare for $500 billion in spending cuts during the next decade due to budget sequestration.

Mackenzie Eaglen, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, noted that the sequestration cuts come on the heels of about $1 trillion in military spending reductions already enacted under President Barack Obama’s administration.

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel discussed the so-called “Strategic Choices and Management Review,” the Pentagon’s options for responding to the cuts, at the end of last month.

Eaglen and Brookings research director Michael O’Hanlon said Hagel presented a bleak outlook for the future of the military, including smaller forces, delayed equipment upgrades, and minimal training sessions.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: defense; gutthemilitary; military; militaryaging; nationalsecurity; pentagon; plan; strategic
Laying the groundwork for WWIII
1 posted on 08/06/2013 3:41:20 PM PDT by Nachum
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2 posted on 08/06/2013 3:41:45 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Obama loves it when a plan comes together.


3 posted on 08/06/2013 3:45:12 PM PDT by moovova
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To: Nachum

Bring on the militarized walkers and wheelchairs!


4 posted on 08/06/2013 3:50:21 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Nachum

Isn’t this what they really want?

We haven’t fought a war to actually win since what, WWII?


5 posted on 08/06/2013 3:50:50 PM PDT by GatorGirl (Who is John Galt?)
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To: Nachum
Aging, Hollow,U.S. Military

6 posted on 08/06/2013 3:51:16 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Nachum

This has been a trend for a long time. Our nukes are 40 years old, we have B-52s which have had crew members serving on the same planes their fathers did in Vietnam, etc.

Reagan’s buildup helped, but notice how many projects got rolled back, cut, or suspended.

Obama simply went from putting band aids on the problem to giving it no attention so he can waste billions on social engineering.


7 posted on 08/06/2013 3:55:32 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: Nachum

“Aging, Hollow Military”

Exactly Obama’s objective!


8 posted on 08/06/2013 3:57:07 PM PDT by G Larry (Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Psalms 109:8)
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To: Nachum

It’s the retro 1970’s.


9 posted on 08/06/2013 3:58:40 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: Nachum

If the military was hard core liberal-democrat group (like unions) this would not be happening...


10 posted on 08/06/2013 4:21:07 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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11 posted on 08/06/2013 4:24:36 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: Nachum

Well, if one is inclined to worry about the US military being dispatched against American citizens, this may not be a bad thing.


12 posted on 08/06/2013 4:30:39 PM PDT by LS ('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
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To: Nachum

We still have our secret weapon........university professors. They can bore anyone to death.


13 posted on 08/06/2013 5:27:23 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Nachum

It seems that too many chiefs (and chief-ettes) want to see jobs only in offices these days. They see few physical realities with which to interact with the world around us.


14 posted on 08/06/2013 5:37:33 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: Nachum

Good. Cut the whole thing in half. No guns for government.


15 posted on 08/06/2013 7:51:59 PM PDT by gotribe (Vladimir Putin is MY President)
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To: Nachum

All by design, Comrade. All. By. Design.

I loved my many years in the Army; I miss Army Life every day...but I cannot believe how our military has been decimated.

Makes my head AND my heart hurt...


16 posted on 08/07/2013 6:44:08 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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