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Chuck Hagel to shrink Army to pre-World War II levels, report says
wah times ^ | 2/24/14 | c chumley

Posted on 02/24/2014 7:55:16 AM PST by bestintxas

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is due to decrease the size of the U.S. Army to its lowest levels since before World War II, The New York Times reported on Monday.

He’s due to unveil the new budget plan on Monday. Among his plans: Reduce the troop level in the Army from its high of 570,000 — the number recorded just after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on American soil — to 440,000 or 450,000, the smallest since 1940, The Hill reported.

“You have to always keep your institution prepared, but you can’t carry a large land-war Defense Department when there is no large land war,” one senior Pentagon official said to The New York Times.

The troop reduction comes as the White House is going forth with plans to withdraw most of the U.S. military presence from Afghanistan before year’s end.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 4ththread; army; dod; hagel; militarycuts; obama
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To: bestintxas

For another attack?

A repeat of Pearl Harbor?


21 posted on 02/24/2014 8:48:49 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: lacrew

“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.”

Been that way for decades, so what’s new?


22 posted on 02/24/2014 8:49:35 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: 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.”

No doubt that is part of the plan.


23 posted on 02/24/2014 8:50:28 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: Seaplaner

No, they are bowing at the feet of King Barry 1, and have voluntarily relinquished their rights and obligations.


24 posted on 02/24/2014 9:06:01 AM PST by matthew fuller (I don't think Obama is subhuman.)
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To: Old Sarge

Actually, the National Guard used carved pine. I have a collector friend who owns several of the original.


25 posted on 02/24/2014 9:17:43 AM PST by warchild9
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To: BuffaloJack

And the firepower they generate is probably increased on the order of 20x or more.

Putting explosives on target is what counts.

Besides, who needs mass armies when the military is being used to better corporate interests? That’s what SF and spy agencies are for.


26 posted on 02/24/2014 9:19:38 AM PST by warchild9
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To: 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.

I just happened to be reading that in May, 1949, our standing Army was down to 630,000 men. That was when Dwight Eisenhower turned down Truman's offer to make him head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff because Ike didn't feel he could live with Truman's military budget cuts. Because of them the standing Army soon dwindled to 591,000 men -- still many more than Obama/Hagel's projected 440,000.

We all know what happened shortly afterward. Kim Il Sung's troops swept across the 38th parallel, taking advantage of our obvious weakness. The only questions now are when and where it will happen again, and how Obama's cuts will affect American citizens.

27 posted on 02/24/2014 9:28:11 AM PST by Bernard Marx
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To: Lion Den Dan

I read somewhere that Hagel and Brennan had become muslims like Barry and Jarrett, and Obama has six muslim advisors. And in a declassified FBI report in 2007 there were 22 muslim compounds across America, some near nuclear power plants. Any relevance to decreasing the military?


28 posted on 02/24/2014 9:46:58 AM PST by charlie72
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To: Lion Den Dan

I read somewhere that Hagel and Brennan had become muslims like Barry and Jarrett, and Obama has six muslim advisors. And in a declassified FBI report in 2007 there were 22 muslim compounds across America, some near nuclear power plants. Any relevance to decreasing the military?


29 posted on 02/24/2014 9:47:56 AM PST by charlie72
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To: oh8eleven

Yep, and the minions of Hitler were also just following orders. Don’t kid yourself. UpChuck is fully behind whatever the dictator tells him to do. He has no honor; if he did he would fight most of these cuts or resign in protest and come out against these cuts. Crappy senator, buttboy for a dictator and yes, Thank you Omaha World Herald and others in the state for pushing him for SofD.

Don’t come back to Nebraska UpChuck. We don’t want you back and you are not needed here.


30 posted on 02/24/2014 9:56:24 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: bestintxas
Lib/Pacifist/DemoCRAPS do this every time after a War and crash us right in to another War and Unprepared to defend ourselves.
31 posted on 02/24/2014 10:00:26 AM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: charlie72
Any relevance to decreasing the military?

Ya reckon?

32 posted on 02/24/2014 10:07:12 AM PST by Lion Den Dan
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To: bestintxas

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

And what happened in 1941?


33 posted on 02/24/2014 10:37:49 AM PST by CrazyIvan (Obama phones= Bread and circuits.)
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To: bestintxas

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.


34 posted on 02/24/2014 10:52:27 AM PST by thejokker
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To: bestintxas

When the next war comes Hagel will blame Georg Bush.


35 posted on 02/24/2014 3:11:36 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: bestintxas

The only enemy our military will be allowed to defeat is us.


36 posted on 02/24/2014 3:16:42 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: 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.”

Agreed. Not military per se that derive the technology, but in military-funded projects by contractors, I think.

Correction: this is not for the “poor”. It is for “VOTES”.

A democracy that chooses not to defend itself and to subsidize indolence by allowing citizens to vote themselves tax money, paid on the backs of the productive class, is a country that cannot survive.


37 posted on 02/24/2014 4:47:08 PM PST by bestintxas (Every time a RINO bites the dust a founding father gets his wings.)
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