The US Should Cut Military Spending In Half -- A Commentary

From The Christian Science Monitor:

Defense Secretary Gates's military budget cuts are too conservative.

Washington - Hawks depicted the cuts that Defense Secretary Robert Gates recently proposed for the Pentagon's weapons programs as a savage assault on the military industrial complex. They insisted that Secretary Gates would leave us prostrate before future rivals.

Counterinsurgency enthusiasts, meanwhile cheered Mr. Gates's willingness to swap high-tech platforms for capabilities suited to the unconventional conflicts we are fighting.

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