Stop subsidizing Europe and pull our Combat Brigades out and bring them home. Defense experts complain that Europe should be spending more on defense. The Europeans complain that we spend too much.
Lets make this simple adjustment, get Europe from behind the US shield and watch our allies shoulder more of the burden. This story is via Military .com but even though the Obama Administration is calling for fewer cuts, you can bet that budget reality will make this low hanging fruit.
Want to really save money? Pull everyone back (the allies complain about US troops on their soil...well everyone but S. Korea and maybe Australia...if we ever get that base built in the Northern Territories). World wide.
Read the whole thing but this is the operative paragraph...and from a Republican no less. Shameful.
In a recent letter to U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, the senior Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Richard Lugar warned that the withdrawals could undermine European security and the sense among NATO allies that the U.S. is committed to Europe.I mean seriously. European security. Not US security but European security?! Time for him to find a new job.