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Retired Military Brass Warn of Obama’s Harmful Defense Cuts
Feb 22, 2012 – By Daniel Halper
Retired Military Brass Warn of Obama’s Harmful Defense Cuts
Feb 22, 2012 – By Daniel Halper
President Obama is cutting future defense spending. It is both a conscious choice to divert funds elsewhere, away from the military, and a consequence of last year’s congressional budget agreement, which alone will likely result in an automatic sequestration of at least $500 billion from future military budgets. Regardless, the decision has serious consequences.
F-22 Raptors over Southwest Asia
In a report today released by the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), former brass from all five U.S. military branches detail what these cuts might mean.
“It will be difficult for the Army to perform the missions indicated if some of the numbers that are being bantered about to achieve the $500 billion reduction become fact,” retired Army Gen. Louis Wagner writes. “If sequestration for another $500 billion becomes a reality, it will be devastating for the Army and the national security of the country.”