>>>Everybody knows that the Reagan Administration, the first Bush Administration, is where the whole military dynamism started again. Mr. Clinton cut a third of the forces. If we had to fight this Gulf War in the same way that we fought the first, we wouldn’t have been able to do it, because he’d cut so much of those traditional forces.
To be exact, defense spending under Clinton was cut 37%, from 1992 to 2000. Spending for DOD went from 4.8% of GDP in 1993, to 3.0% of GDP in 2000.
Stats come from OMB figures