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Relax, the United States Will Not Dismantle Our Perpetual War Machine
Tom Scocca · 02/24/14 05:54PMThe front page of today's New York Times has astonishing news for a nation accustomed to life on an eternal war footing: Defense secretary Chuck Hagel has proposed shrinking the United States military to a size, as the subheadline puts it, "Equal to That of 1940." Online, where the subheads are more expansive, the paper elaborates: