Pentagon Boosts Strategic Strike

摘要

THE PENTAGON'S PROPOSED $5.75-billion budget for 2015 is nearly $120 billion less than the military spent in 2010. The decline reflects the ends of the Iraq and, soon, Afghanistan wars plus the effects of automatic 'sequestration' budget cuts. But even with reductions, it's still by far the biggest military budget in the world. That $575 billion funds 1.3 million active-duty troops and the production of hundreds of drones and warplanes, seven major warships and many thousands of missiles and bombs... as well as a full year of combat operations in Afghanistan, Africa and the Middle East.