Defense speding after 2012

[03USMC]

The cuts are already in the pipeline on the AD side there will be units stood down, most of these are units raised to augment the war, on the reserve side units that were reclassed/retasked to needed MOS's will probably be retasked again to the "new" needed tasking apparently the new "need" in my area is 31E cage kicker with a new HSLD designation.

Units will lean out, billets will disappear it happens after every conflict you deal with it and then jump through hoops the next time.

 

[Winttrix]

Lets see...Vietnam ends, dems gut the military, resulting in a hollow force & Desert 1, & increase welfare/entitlement spending. Reagan rebuilds the force. Clinton eleminates the whole force used in Gulf War 1 & despite welfare reforms, spending on entitlements increase. Obama has made cuts to the force already with more to come.
what's the US's longest, most expensive War? The War on Poverty with no end in sight & no exit strategy, far more money wasted on that than any other war. As far as the money spent on WWII vs now....figure in the inflation caused by entitlement spending since LBJ, not to mention all the spending since Dems took over Congress in '07. Regardless, Obama will increase spending on Govt dependance programs, it's vote buying & they love it!

The most expensive war can't be the War on Poverty, it's by far the war on drugs.