President Obama yesterday launched a reshaping and shrinking of the military while vowing to preserve U.S. pre-eminence even as the military sheds troops and the administration considers reducing its nuclear weapons arsenal.
The changes won?t come without risk, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said. But he called it acceptable and, because of budget restraints, inevitable.
Obama said the U.S. is ?turning a page? after having killed Osama bin Laden, withdrawing troops from Iraq and winding down the war in Afghanistan.
?Our military will be leaner, but the world must know the United States is going to maintain our military superiority,? Obama said.
He outlined a vision for the future that some Republican lawmakers quickly dubbed wrong-headed.
?This is a lead-from-behind strategy for a left-behind America,? said Rep. Howard ?Buck? McKeon (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
Obama unveiled the results of an eight-month defense strategy review that is intended to guide decisions on cutting hundreds of billions from planned Pentagon spending over the coming decade. The eight-page document contained no details about how broad concepts for reshaping the military ? such as focusing more on Asia and less on Europe ? will translate into troop or weapons cuts.
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