Today Leon Panetta will take the oath to become our nation's 23rd secretary of defense. After he walks through the Pentagon's river entrance and up the oak-paneled stairwell to his office, the weight of managing a three million-person department during wartime will sink in. And Mr. Panetta's tenure begins just as President Obama and bipartisan majorities in Congress are insisting on deep cuts to defense spending. It will be tempting to accede to the White House's proposal to carve out $400 billion, if not more, from the national security budget by 2023. It would also be a...
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/06/30/the_peril_of_deep_defense_cuts_258503.html
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