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New Military Strategy Shows A Dangerous World – But Not How To Deal With It
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon is painfully aware the world is changing. What the military’s clearly still struggling with is how we should change to cope.
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Army announces force reduction of 40,000 troops
Washington (CNN) The Army will cut 40,000 troops from its ranks by 2017 as part of a new round of reductions brought on by constraints in the federal budget, the Army's director of force management said Thursday.
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Army Advances Plan to Cut 40,000 Troops by a Year to 2017
The U.S. Army is speeding up by a year plans to reduce its active-duty force to 450,000 from the current 490,000, according to Pentagon documents.
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Do Marines Have To Hitchhike At Sea? The Real Story
WASHINGTON: Is the US Navy really so short of warships that Marines must catch a ride on foreign vessels, like heavily armed hitchhikers?
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Russia’s New Nuclear Submarines to Target U.S. Aircraft Carriers
Russia is designing “carrier killer” nuclear submarines, local media is reporting.
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No More Easy Victories for the U.S. Military?
Last week, in a speech delivered to a Rand Corp. audience in Washington D.C., U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work preached his usual sermon about the slipping technological edge of the United States military and the growing danger posed by effective countermeasures to the American Way of War primarily based on precision-strike regimes (see: “The End of the American Way of War?”).