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America Doesn’t Need a Big Army Any More

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The crisis in Crimea shows that even the strongest U.S. land forces wouldn’t provide a military option for the President. It’s time to shrink the Army.

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It was not surprising that the mass media response to the 2015 defense budget was that it would result in “the smallest Army since before World War II.”

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