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As noted below, it's near-useless to bandy about simple amounts of proposed defense cuts without putting them in perspective — unless you're trying to frighten people with the "billions and billions" on the chopping block. In other words, $487 billion sounds like a lot (which it is), until you realize it's (a) over a decade, … Continue reading “Doing the math on military budget cuts”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,12,17,9],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-25771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-fourth-estate","category-homeland-security","category-politics-law","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25121,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/05\/military-budget-cuts.html","url_meta":{"origin":25771,"position":0},"title":"Military budget cuts","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 5-Jan-12 1:04pm","format":false,"excerpt":"And about time. As has been noted in a number of areas, the US is the biggest military spender on Earth, expending more on Defense than the 2nd-10th place spenders combined.The article here is short on specifics, but a few items of note:- Reduced European presence. Aside from convenient staging\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25074,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/04\/a-realistic-military.html","url_meta":{"origin":25771,"position":1},"title":"A realistic military","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 4-Jan-12 2:27pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It will be interesting to see how this actually plays out. What's the bottom-line impact to the Federal budget? How will those savings be used? What sort of land force, to act in what sort of capacity, will be left? 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