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Defense cuts announced by Obama
US President Barack Obama put his personal stamp yesterday on a rejigged Pentagon strategy for absorbing hundreds of billions of dollars in defense budget cuts, marking a turning point in US security policy after a decade of war.
In a rare appearance in the Pentagon press briefing room, Obama announced that the military will be reshaped with an emphasis on countering terrorism, maintaining a nuclear deterrent, protecting the US homeland, and “deterring and defeating aggression by any potential adversary.”
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