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Saving the American Empire: The Necessity for Further Cuts in the US Defense Budget

机译：拯救美国帝国：进一步削减美国国防预算的必要性

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The American Empire is overextended with too large and expensive a military, and too interventionist a foreign policy, for its deficit weakened economic base. Reductions in the defense budget and adjustments in the budget's focus are the only ways to reduce the deficit, meet the current threat and save the overextended American Empire from collapse. Since the end of the Cold War, the greatest threat facing the US is the burden placed on the economy by the deficit. The current deficit is $180 billion and is expected to grow to $1.5 trillion by 2020. The deficit further exacerbates the greater public debt, which will grow from 55% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to an estimated 65% of GDP by 2004. This weakens the security of the nation by threatening economic collapse and by limiting improvements to the national infrastructure. The deficit is fueled to a large degree by the $262 billion defense budget--a figure almost as large as the next nine national defense budgets combined. This large defense budget represents 50% of all discretionary spending, which makes it the primary area to look to for deficit reduction. Reviewing the current threat, it is apparent that there is room for reductions in the budget, primarily by changing to a one Major Regional Contingency strategy. Those reductions can be engineered by a change in foreign policy that focuses on vital interests, and therefore calls for smaller standing forces. Recommended force structure under this proposal results in a force of: eight active and six reserve Army divisions, 10 active Air Force wings, eight Navy Carrier Groups, and one and two-thirds active and one reserve Marine Expeditionary Forces. There are several recommendations for savings in procurement: Stop further B-2 procurement, cancel the F-22, replace the MV-22 with the CH-53, replace C-17 procurement with civilian airlifters, cancel the third Seawolf, stop conversion of the nuclear CA submarine missile to the D-5, and reduce DDG-51 procurement.

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