LIGNET: US Hollows Out Defense Budget, Asks NATO to Pick Up Slack

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's austere vision of U.S. defense spending priorities, if approved by Congress, would slash the military to the size it was before the 9/11 attacks, rendering the United States far less capable of handling two wars at once.

Few are praising the plan, which appears to assume that increased European defense spending will cover NATO's growing security gap.

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