November 4 news: According to the Associated Press reported that U.S. President Barack Obama October 28 signing of the 2010 annual defense budget amounted to 680 billion U.S. dollars. While he said that the bill cut unnecessary spending, avoiding the inefficiencies of national defense affairs, but still amounted to more than 09 years nearly 700 billion U.S. dollars, to many, as the Obama “peace president” who is quite surprised.
Eliminate the president’s helicopter project the purchase of unmanned aerial vehicles
In absolute amounts, the U.S. defense budget for fiscal year 2009 amounted to 612 billion U.S. dollars, in 2008 for the 471 billion U.S. dollars, even with an additional 196 billion emergency funding for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, there is still no more than the year 2010. Going back, the U.S. defense budget for 2007 fiscal year 439.3 billion U.S. dollars, plus 120 billion war funding, it will only 559.3 billion U.S. dollars.
Then, claiming that to adjust the U.S. foreign strategy of Barack Obama, for the defense budget, why not only does not reduce, but do continue to increase investment? Through a detailed analysis, we find that the new budget than in previous years has shown two main characteristics: First, cut to cope with large-scale conventional war, the development of high-tech projects, in turn, increased combat weapons procurement; second is to increase investment in the war (on the Iranian-Afghan basis of the two places for the 130 billion U.S. dollars investment in the future may also be additional).
Specifically, the bill reduced the number of major projects, in addition to abandon the purchase of 20 million F-22 fighter jets and cut a new destroyer DDG-1000 procurement quantity (per vessel cost of five billion U.S. dollars) at a cost of 160 billion U.S. dollars of “future combat system “R & D projects are to delete the column. In addition, a cost of 13 billion U.S. dollars canceled the presidential helicopter project, a new transport projects and a senior military satellite development program.
Increased funding for the project and which do? Mainly aimed at other than the threat of large-scale war. For example: the purchase of multi-purpose F-35 fighter jets (estimated from 68 billion to 11.2 billion), Littoral Combat Ships and for front-line combat helicopters; to continue research and development deal with roadside bombs, anti-landmine ambush vehicles; the purchase of used to monitor front of the 50 “Predator” unmanned aerial vehicle (20 million).
At the same time, the new budget also plans to stop the curtailment of the Air Force and Navy personnel, the Army and Marine Corps will be an addendum to 65000 and 2.7 million people in response to U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan stretched situation.
China and Russia issued a tough signal to reduce the global capacity to intervene increased rather than decreased
Not difficult to see, as opposed to the Bush administration, Obama’s new defense budget, more inclined to respond to real threats rather than potential rivals (such as China and Russia). This is because, to the U.S. military advantage, that is, using the current equipment, in the next few decades, will continue to “uncontested top dog.” On the other hand, roadside bombs and sniper fire has continued to take away the lives of U.S. soldiers, so Obama’s defense policy adjustment is clearly more in line with the realities of U.S. interests, but also more popular. Just as Obama in the White House said at the signing ceremony, the bill “Reaffirming the national security and the expansion of military personnel and their dependents to ensure the rights and interests of the determination, and to respond to the military challenges of the 21st century, provide the necessary investment”, which for the Budget in the United States to secure the moral support.
As opposed to the Bush administration’s aggressive strategy, Obama did a lot of adjustments, such as no longer to deploy anti-missile system in Poland, Russia and other countries to reduce threats signals. Nevertheless, the U.S. defense budget is still growing that its ability to intervene in global affairs is not only not diminished, but overall increase – both in the prevention of long-term strategic threat, one-upmanship, the war in response to a specific and more comfortably. This rest of the world is concerned, is a blessing or a curse premature.
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October 20, Taiwan’s military scheduled the annual publication “National Defense Report” (hereinafter referred to as “the Report”). As cross-strait relations in the Ma Ying-jeou “government” After taking office, becoming relaxed, “the report” the extent to attract the eye gradually lower. Nevertheless, this “red tape” shown by some of the new content and new formulation, or by the media attention.