Pentagon to cut armed forces severely due to reduced budget ...

Hoorah!!

Defense Secretary Hagle (Hagel?) says reduction from 525,000 to roughly 400,000 won't hurt American military capabilities.

It's about time!!

Will this also mean we'll be closing the majority of our 1,000 plus overseas bases? I sure hope so!

If we get into another ground war, they should draft what they need to fight it and make sure the public agrees that war is necessary.

That wouldn't have been the case, by the way, in Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan.

All of which we squandered thousands of lives and billions of dollars for no other reason than building profits for our MIC.

Reality!!

Wordslinger wrote:Hoorah!!

Defense Secretary Hagle (Hagel?) says reduction from 525,000 to roughly 400,000 won't hurt American military capabilities.

It's about time!!

Will this also mean we'll be closing the majority of our 1,000 plus overseas bases?  I sure hope so!

If we get into another ground war, they should draft what they need to fight it and make sure the public agrees that war is necessary.  

That wouldn't have been the case, by the way, in Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan.

All of which we squandered thousands of lives and billions of dollars for no other reason than building profits for our MIC.

Reality!!

Well sometimes our paths cross.....now if they would just quit building a civilian defense force called the DHS things would be lookin up.