Saturday, November 22, 2014

U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel: U.S. Military Capability Is Being Threatened



HAGEL: The World Is 'Damn Dangerous' And Our Army Is Not Ready -- Business Insider

In an exclusive interview with Charlie Rose at the Pentagon yesterday, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel warned of the unprecedented challenges facing the United States military role on the global stage.

"The world is dangerous. It is damn dangerous," Hagel said.

Earlier on, Hagel conceded to an array of US foreign policy failures read aloud by Rose from the op-ed pages of The New York Times, adding they came in response to an unprecedented and uniquely volatile global environment.

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Update: Hagel: ‘U.S. Military Capability is Being Threatened’ -- Washington Free Beacon

My Comment: He is right that the world is dangerous and that U.S. military capability is being threatened .... but he is the one who presiding over some the steepest cuts in the U.S. military since the Second World War .... and he seems to be incapable/unable/unwilling to stop it.

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