you can't have a huge infrastructure supporting a reduced force.
Leon Panetta: “you can't have a huge infrastructure supporting a reduced force.”
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Leon Panetta emphasized the need to align military infrastructure with reduced troop levels.
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Well, I think you saw a tragic and historic moment take place in the Oval Office, in which 80 years of United States foreign policy has largely been turned on its head.
The message that went out from this meeting to the world is that United States credibility in dealing with our allies has taken a real hit.
And the problem is, we now realize that 80% of our THAADs are down, that our Patriots were down almost more than one half … and we’re down in our Stingers, we’re down with all of our critical missile systems at a time when there is a real…
Something, somebody, somewhere failed to do the proper planning for what had to take place in order to properly support our men and women in uniform.





