General Dempsey, some plans currently under discussion claim to achieve a $1 trillion reduction in defense spending simply by reducing the baseline the Congressional Budget Office has been using for the cost of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
McCain discusses proposed reductions in defense spending based on war cost adjustments.
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