The Pentagon's 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review report of this February states:
"The United States is a global power with global responsibilities. Including operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, approximately 400,000 U.S. military personnel are forward-stationed or rotationally deployed around the world.
"America's leadership in this world requires a whole-of-government approach that integrates all elements of national power. Agile and flexible U.S. military forces with superior capabilities across a broad spectrum of potential operations are a vital component of this broad tool set....The United States remains the only nation able to project and sustain large-scale combat operations over extended distances." [7]
On the same day the Defense Department released the new Quadrennial Defense Review it also proposed a $708 billion budget for next year, the largest in constant dollars since 1946.
Washington has been at war in Asia since the first year of the decade that is now drawing to a close. It will still be in Afghanistan well into the middle of the next and in one manner and to some degree to its end. Asia is the Pentagon's main 21st century war front.
1) Agence France-Presse, December 15, 2010
2) Phnom Penh Post, December 13, 2010
3) Navy NewsStand, December 15, 2010
4) Daily Telegraph, October 25, 2010
5) Voice of Russia, November 8, 2010
6) Stars and Stripes, December 15, 2010
7) 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review Report
February 2010
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"The United States is a global power with global responsibilities. Including operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, approximately 400,000 U.S. military personnel are forward-stationed or rotationally deployed around the world.
"America's leadership in this world requires a whole-of-government approach that integrates all elements of national power. Agile and flexible U.S. military forces with superior capabilities across a broad spectrum of potential operations are a vital component of this broad tool set....The United States remains the only nation able to project and sustain large-scale combat operations over extended distances." [7]
On the same day the Defense Department released the new Quadrennial Defense Review it also proposed a $708 billion budget for next year, the largest in constant dollars since 1946.
1) Agence France-Presse, December 15, 2010
2) Phnom Penh Post, December 13, 2010
3) Navy NewsStand, December 15, 2010
4) Daily Telegraph, October 25, 2010
5) Voice of Russia, November 8, 2010
6) Stars and Stripes, December 15, 2010
7) 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review Report
February 2010
click here
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