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Obama Announces Pentagon Budget Cuts

  • January 5, 2012
  • USA Today

President Obama announced a new military strategy on Thursday that will cut the Pentagon budget by hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade /…/

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U.S. Turns to Drones to Counter China

  • January 5, 2012
  • Japan Times

A recent offer by the Seychelles to refuel and replenish Chinese naval ships on anti-piracy patrols in the northwest Indian Ocean was seen as the latest sign of China’s expanding naval power. But it obscured an even more significant development: U.S. deployment of a mini-air force of long-range, remotely-piloted aircraft from a network of airfields in the Seychelles, the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula to track and if necessary attack suspected terrorists on land and pirates at sea/…/

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Obama Puts His Stamp on Strategy for a Leaner Military

  • January 5, 2012
  • New York Times

President Obama has for the first time put his own stamp on an all-encompassing American military policy by turning from the grinding ground wars that he inherited from the Bush administration and refocusing on what he described as a smaller, more agile force across Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East /…/

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Critics Question Pentagon’s New Strategy

  • January 5, 2012
  • NPR

For two decades, the Pentagon has maintained that it could fight two wars at the same time. But as the Obama administration releases its new military strategy Thursday, some question whether the Pentagon will abandon that long-held commitment/…/

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Iranian Sabre-Rattling Won’t Spark Arms Race, Analysts Say

  • January 4, 2012
  • AOL Defense

American allies in the the Middle East won’t be rushing to flood their arsenals with U.S. military hardware as a result of Iran’s recent aggressiveness in the region, according to defense experts.

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China Takes Aim At U.S. Naval Might

  • January 4, 2012
  • Wall Street Journal

China is engaged in a major military buildup. Part of its plan is to force U.S. carriers to stay farther away from its shores, Chinese military analysts say/…/

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