Washington (CNN) The Army will cut 40,000 troops from its ranks by 2017 as part of a new round of reductions brought on by constraints in the federal budget, the Army’s director of force management said Thursday.
The U.S. Army is speeding up by a year plans to reduce its active-duty force to 450,000 from the current 490,000, according to Pentagon documents.
WASHINGTON: Is the US Navy really so short of warships that Marines must catch a ride on foreign vessels, like heavily armed hitchhikers?
Russia is designing “carrier killer” nuclear submarines, local media is reporting.
Mark Gunzinger and Bryan Clark discuss their recently-released report, Sustaining America’s Precision Strike Advantage, with Vago Muradian on Defense News
Last week, in a speech delivered to a Rand Corp. audience in Washington D.C., U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work preached his usual sermon about the slipping technological edge of the United States military and the growing danger posed by effective countermeasures to the American Way of War primarily based on precision-strike regimes (see: “The End of the American Way of War?”).
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