U.S. Defense Strategy, Budgeting And Hyperbole

The revised national security for the United States calls for a smaller and more flexible force that is more oriented more towards Asia and the Pacific. Priorities include intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance as well as counterterrorism. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, went into details at the Pentagon on Jan. 5. With U.S. forces leaving Iraq and preparing to do so in Afghanistan, the American military is...