Defense spending cuts in big-ticket procurement programs are inevitable, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates warned. The Department of Defense can't continue indefinitely the spending increases of recent years, and Pentagon leaders must be forced as well to fund smaller-outlay programs to address counterinsurgency and terrorism types of attacks, rather than focusing mainly on confronting major military powers, Gates wrote in the current January-February issue of Foreign Affairs, the magazine of the Council on Foreign Relations. Many military analysts, as well,…
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