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Maintaining a significant presence in the Middle East and Asia, especially to counter Iran and North Korea, was a leading priority in the review, Smith said. So was making sure that military personnel are sufficiently cared for to guarantee the effectiveness of the all-volunteer force. Reductions in the size of U.S. forces in Europe and elsewhere are a real possibility, he said.

Pentagon spokesman Navy Captain John Kirby said with the military winding down a decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, it is appropriate to re-evaluate the role of U.S. forces abroad.

"From an operational perspective it's ... an opportune time to take a look at what the U.S. military is doing and what it should be doing or should be preparing itself to do over the next 10 to 15 years," he said on Wednesday.

"So, yes, the budget cuts are certainly a driver here, but so quite frankly are current events," Kirby said.

(Additional reporting by Caren Bohan; Editing by Will Dunham)

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Comments (154)

BioStudies wrote:

Lets chalk this up to another bad idea from this administration.

Obama has touted his “no boots on the ground victory” in Libya and Libya is sliding closer and closer to civil war every day.

We failed in Afghanistan by not putting more boots on the ground earlier in the conflict and letting Osama get away for 10 whole years.

There is no such thing as winning a war solely from the air or sea.

This whole plan is ridiculous.

Jan 04, 2012 5:47pm EST  --  

crbob wrote:

Looks like they are taking a page from Ron Paul’s book, and cutting forces, however the military industrial complex is still alive and well and will start a firefight whenever some of their money dries up…..

Jan 04, 2012 6:20pm EST  --  

Cranberries wrote:

Why waste manpower and lives when we can just simply vaporize them from the seat of an jet?Back to Eisenhower Theory for war aka “overwhelming firepower.” Nice. I like it.

Jan 04, 2012 6:33pm EST  --  

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