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2012-01-04 Home Front: Politix

Pentagon to unveil revised defense strategy

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Posted by gorb 2012-01-04 05:29|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Bring home all combat and combat-support troops from Europe. We don't need them there. Europe is not threatened by an external nation-state.

We can stay at the airbases. The hospital at Landstuhl is extremely useful. A few naval ports of call are useful.

That's about it.

We certainly can cut our defense budget modestly to help with tough times, and Europe is one place where we can do the cutting.

Posted by Steve White 2012-01-04 08:54|| 2012-01-04 08:54|| Front Page Top

#2 I believe I read somewhere that the US bases in Europe produce about 200,000 local jobs and add about $10B to the local economies.

The 'Euro-Centrists' in the WH wouldn't want to p*ss off their socialist Euro-Elite brethren by closing bases and causing problems within the proletariat.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2012-01-04 10:05|| 2012-01-04 10:05|| Front Page Top

#3 We have gone form a military built to fight two major theater conflicts simultaneously, to 1.5 where we delay while we win, to 1 and some poor bastards who get kinetic discharges while we win, to the Obama goal, an annoying force with cool uniforms and great travel accommodations whose goal is not to upset 3rd rate powers and most certainly not to threaten our Eastern overlords.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2012-01-04 12:06|| 2012-01-04 12:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Bleed the military dry then complain while the Trunks build it back up. Typical liberal doctrine.

Posted by gorb 2012-01-04 12:09|| 2012-01-04 12:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Its the Obama doctrine.

Posted by rjschwarz 2012-01-04 14:43|| 2012-01-04 14:43|| Front Page Top

#6 DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > SOURCES: US DEFENCE BUDGET CUTS PREVENT TWO-WAR FORCE STRUCTURE.

ARTIC = Iran can threaten US CV's operat in the Persian Gulf because believes it can now do whatever it wants - wid 91,000 US Troops in Afghanistan thru Year 2014, A US ATTACK + INVASION AGZ IRAN IS ALL BUT ABSOLUTELY PREVENTED DUE TO MAJOR US ECON + BUDGET CONSTRAINTS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-01-04 21:39|| 2012-01-04 21:39|| Front Page Top

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