Defense budgets have always been cut after an extended military operation, and it will be no different as the Afghan conflict draws to an end. However, the circumstances in which the Air Force finds itself this time means this drawdown will bear far greater peril of cutting too far, Secretary of the Air Force Michael B. Donlev said. Speaking with defense reporters in Washington D.C., Donley said the Air Force has been studying the "peaks and valleys" of defense spending, and how the service has managed through the drops in spending attending the end of previous wars. However, the strategic situation today is very different than it was the last time there was a postwar drawdown, in the early 1990s.
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