{"id":39960,"date":"2014-02-22T08:38:52","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T13:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39960"},"modified":"2014-02-22T08:39:57","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T13:39:57","slug":"obama-to-cut-spending-for-special-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39960","title":{"rendered":"Obama to cut spending for special forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/article\/20140221\/NEWS05\/302210022?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\">The Army Times<\/a> reports that the Obama Administration plans on cutting the growth of funding for special operations troops, despite the fact that they an integral cog in the robot-ninja-zombie Joe Biden strategy in the war against terror;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSOF will be flat\u201d across the 2015 budget plan\u2019s five years, said one defense source with ties to the Pentagon and White House.<\/p>\n<p>Another source, citing conversations with senior special operations officials, told Defense News that SOF funding will be \u201creined in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The coming proposal to slow funding for the highly lethal forces follows a decade during which special ops ranks grew substantially to support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as other missions against al-Qaida and similar groups.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We were told in 2009, when this administration was deciding whether to fully staff McCrystal&#8217;s surge in Afghanistan, that we didn&#8217;t need the 60,000 troops he requested because we could use special operations and drones to fill the gaps. The thinking was that, although spending for special operations was greater than for rank and file troops, we got a bigger bang for the buck, resulting from the increased training and advanced equipment. So, I guess we&#8217;re abandoning that savings benefit now.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve seen operations increase, you know, with the bin Laden and al-Libi operations the most visible. So, the folks in Bizzaro World concur that this makes total sense.<\/p>\n<p>They could make up for the funding cuts by drafting our phonies who pretend to be special operations into those missions, though. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Army Times reports that the Obama Administration plans on cutting the growth of funding for &hellip; <a title=\"Obama to cut spending for special forces\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39960\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama to cut spending for special forces<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}