Invitation to a Dialogue: The Military Budget
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Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta lays out excellent proposals for reducing the defense budget: reducing nuclear weapons, the number of troops in Europe, the size of the ground forces, health care costs for military retirees and the number of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters (“Panetta Weighs Pentagon Cuts Once Off Limits,” front page, Nov. 7). But these proposals are not specific or comprehensive enough.
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This article was originally published in The New York Times.
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