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Sunday, December 25, 2011

Leon Panetta: Military Cuts Mean "Doomsday" for America

by: Barry Eisler, Truthout | 
News Analysis 
 
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta wants you to be scared.

In a letter to Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain, Panetta warned that after possible cuts in the military budget, "we would have the smallest ground force since 1940, the smallest number of ships since 1915, and the smallest Air Force in its history."
Which would be pretty damn bad ... if we wound up having to go to war with America's 1940 Army, 1915 Navy, or some historical version of America's Air Force. 

If we're lucky, though, and don't have to go to war with past incarnations of our military, 
Panetta's comparison is logically nearly irrelevant. In fact, even the most massive cuts 
currently under consideration would return American military spending only to 2007 levels
So, as long as we don't have to go to war with our 2007 military, we should be O.K.
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