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   From: jmorehead@dublin.ie   
      
   The Obama administration’s four-year defense strategy lacks   
   funding needed for fulfilling global military missions and the   
   U.S. military faces “high risk” in the world unless changes are   
   made, according to a bipartisan report by a congressionally   
   backed panel of defense experts.   
      
   The report by the National Defense Panel, led by former Defense   
   Secretary William Perry and retired Marine Corps Gen. John   
   Abizaid, criticized the Pentagon’s Quadrennial Defense Review   
   for outlining military responsibilities that cannot be met   
   because of sharp defense funding cuts.   
      
   The report concluded that the capabilities called for in the QDR   
   “clearly exceed the budget resources made available to the   
   department.”   
      
   “This gap is disturbing if not dangerous in light of the fact   
   that global threats and challenges are rising, including a   
   troubling pattern of territorial assertiveness and regional   
   intimidation on China’s part, [and] the recent aggression of   
   Russia in Ukraine.”   
      
   Other threats include nuclear proliferation by North Korea and   
   Iran, the ultra-violent Islamist insurgency in Iraq and civil   
   war in Syria, along with growing unrest throughout the Middle   
   East and North Africa.   
      
   http://freebeacon.com/national-security/defense-panel-obama-   
   administration-defense-strategy-dangerously-underfunded-2/   
      
       
      
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