-Caveat Lector-
............<snip>Since 1989, the Navy has been reduced by 36 percent,
the Army and Air Force by 45 percent and the
Marine Corps
by 12 percent while the overall operational
commitments have
increased at a rate of 300 percent, according to
the House
Armed Services Committee. While defense spending
as a
percentage of the federal budget has been driven
down from
25.8 percent in 1989 to 14.6 percent in 1999, the
military
services have had to cut back on funding for
vital resources
while upping their operations tempo, or OPTEMPO.
In fact,
since 1991 Clinton has ordered 14 contingency
operations and
the Army has been used in 29 substantial overseas
deployments, compared with just 10 in the four
previous
decades.
. . . . As Inhofe puts it: "We are in the most
threatened position
since the Revolutionary War. Through his veto
power, he has
starved the conventional forces.... Secondly, we
would have
had a defense against a limited ICBM
[Intercontinental Ballistic
Missile] in place in [fiscal] 1998 if it had not
been for the
president's vetoes."..............<snip>
http://www.insightmag.com/articles/story4.html
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Regards,
-A
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