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**The Reaper** · 09-30-2014, 21:04

I was wondering when someone would notice this.

Eventually, more with less has to end.

TR

Pentagon Warns It Can't Continue to Police the World

By Sandra I. Erwin

http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.o...FLists%2FPosts

The Defense Department has concluded it can no longer afford to satisfy current demands for military forces from overseas commanders. As a result, it is considering cutting back on forward-stationed forces and deployments, said Deputy Defense Secretary Robert O. Work.

"We are really taking a hard look at our whole global posture," Work said Sept. 30 at the Council on Foreign Relations, in Washington, D.C. The U.S. military has maintained forces around the world consistently since the Cold War, but as budgets decline and forces shrink, the Pentagon has to rethink its commitments, Work said. "It will be different," he added. The details of the plan are still under debate.

While there is a big appetite around the world for American leadership, the Obama administration believes that other countries need to step up and share the security burdens, said Work.

The Army and the Marine Corps, particularly, are on a path to reducing its ranks by more than 120,000 troops collectively over the next several years. The cutbacks were prompted by the end of the wars in Iraq and the drawdown in Afghanistan, and by spending limits set by Congress.

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The Reaper Quiet Professional Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Free Pineland Posts: 24,813	Pentagon Warns It Can't Continue to Police the World I was wondering when someone would notice this. Eventually, more with less has to end. TR Pentagon Warns It Can't Continue to Police the World By Sandra I. Erwin http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.o...FLists%2FPosts The Defense Department has concluded it can no longer afford to satisfy current demands for military forces from overseas commanders. As a result, it is considering cutting back on forward-stationed forces and deployments, said Deputy Defense Secretary Robert O. Work. "We are really taking a hard look at our whole global posture," Work said Sept. 30 at the Council on Foreign Relations, in Washington, D.C. The U.S. military has maintained forces around the world consistently since the Cold War, but as budgets decline and forces shrink, the Pentagon has to rethink its commitments, Work said. "It will be different," he added. The details of the plan are still under debate. While there is a big appetite around the world for American leadership, the Obama administration believes that other countries need to step up and share the security burdens, said Work. The Army and the Marine Corps, particularly, are on a path to reducing its ranks by more than 120,000 troops collectively over the next several years. The cutbacks were prompted by the end of the wars in Iraq and the drawdown in Afghanistan, and by spending limits set by Congress. (Cont. at link above) __________________ "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910 De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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