13% Will reduce troops army

The Pentagon plans to reduce by 13 per cent the strength of the army, from the current 570,000 to 490,000 in 2017, and a 9% cut in its budget for 2013, to stand at $ 613,400 million, announced yesterday Thursday U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta.

"We have decided to keep not most effective of which we can enable us to train and equip correctly," said Panetta during a press conference that introduced the budgetary guidelines of your Department, reflection of the austerity that awaits the defence sector in his country in the coming years.

The reduction of the military budget for the period fiscal 2013, which begins October 1, falls within the framework of a saving of 487,000 millions of dollars the Pentagon should be done in 10 years.

Of the proposed budget of 613,000 million (compared to 671,000 billion this year), 88,400 million would be allocated to u000acombat, primarily in Afghanistan operations

With increasing pressure on the deficit balances of United States after a decade in which its involvement in the wars of Afghanistan and Iraq were made by dent in public finances, the budgetary guidelines announced by Panetta are supported by the new strategy of Defense revealed earlier this month by the US, President Barack Obama.

Priorities the new military orientation proposed by Obama focused their priorities in the Middle East and the Asia Pacific region and is reluctant to operations of long and costly, as in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In addition to the reduction of the army, which will begin to be implemented after the American withdrawal of Afghanistan, where there are still deployed 90,000 of their military, Secretary of Defense arises cut the elite corps of the Marines from about 202,000 member that currently u000ato 182,000.

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