EU will have new Defense plans

United States, in tax trouble after a decade with two distant wars, announced yesterday that it will reduce the number of its troops, reorientará its global strategy looking at the Pacific and will be devoted to the management of their accounts and the strengthening of its economy.

"We must renew our economic strength is the livelihood of our strength in the world," declared President Barack Obama at an appearance very rare in the press room of the Pentagon.

Obama said that, since the terrorist attacks against the us in September 2001 "military budget has grown rapidly and is now higher than at the end of the Government of (its predecessor) President George w. Bush".

Anticipation of critics, he made it clear, however, that the new strategy and the new budget will ensure world forces supremacy Americans.

Even with all the cuts in expenditure projected for the next decade, the u000amilitary budget of United States will remain greater than the sum of the ten Nations that followed by the amount of your expenses military.

At the same Conference of press Chief of the Pentagon, Leon Panetta, contended that EE.UU. It will maintain its ability to "fight and defeat over one enemy at the same time". "The military presence of United States in Europe will adapt and evolve" under the new strategy

In Latin America and Africa, said Panetta, United States "will seek innovative ways" to maintain its presence and its military programs. But the emphasis of American strategy, indicated Obama and Panetta, now goes to East Asia, where China's aspirations is observed with suspicion, and will continue to monitor very middle, an appellation that for us includes from North Africa to Israel, the Gulf and until Afghanistan.

More of 700 thousand million dollars u000a
EE "defense" budget.UU. -It includes not only military spending but also the espionage, the investigation of arms and nuclear programmes under the Department of Energíacreció of some $ 300 billion in 2000 to more than 700 billion dollars in the fiscal period 2012.

Within that almost 20% spending has fallen to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, undertaken at the time that the Bush administration recortaba taxes, so that the financing has been at the expense of swell the national debt of United States. The Pentagon faces now reductions of between 400 billion and 1 trillion dollars over the next decade. "Now that we turn the page of a decade of war we must put our Treasury in order," stated the President.

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