{"id":28495,"date":"2012-01-27T09:50:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T13:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28495"},"modified":"2012-01-27T09:50:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T13:50:25","slug":"back-to-the-future-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28495","title":{"rendered":"Back to the future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leon Panetta unfurled his plan for slashing defense spending yesterday. I got the feeling that we are now in the post-Korean War era, with Eisenhower touting the “bigger bang for the buck” strategy of relying on our nuclear dominance for our defense. Except now Panetta thinks that relying on our technological dominance is the cure-all for our national security concerns. <\/p>\n

Panetta cloaked the smaller force in terms like “agile” to make it seem as if he’s improving the force.<\/p>\n

Although some have been predicting slashes to manpower up to 100k troops, the Washington Post<\/a> says 57,000 slots will be cut;<\/p>\n

Aside from the cuts to the Army, which will eventually reduce the number of active-duty soldiers to 490,000 from 547,000, most of the reductions revealed Thursday had been previously announced or involved less costly items. Panetta noted that the Army and the Marine Corps will still be slightly larger than they were in 2001, before the invasion of Afghanistan and the subsequent war in Iraq.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The plan for Europe is to leave just two brigades behind says Stars & Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The move will send the 172nd Separate Infantry Brigade, based out of Grafenw\u00f6hr and Schweinfurt, and the Baumholder-based 170th Infantry Brigade, back to the States.<\/p>\n

The 2nd Cavalry Regiment in Vilseck, Germany, and the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team in Vicenza, Italy, will remain as the only Army brigades permanently based in Europe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ya know, all of that is fine, if the Europeans are willing to pick up their end of the rope and pull for a change instead of relying on the US to rush to their aid, And while Eisenhower was planning on the nuclear edge for our defense, history had other plans and we were later embroiled in a close-up, hand-to-hand primitive sort of warfare that negated any impact our nuclear arsenal. In other words, our enemies will make plans to exploit our weaknesses, not our strengths. <\/p>\n

So while Panetta and Obama plan to fight the next next war with drones and ninjas, our enemies are planning a manpower-intensive war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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