The United States' new defense strategy aims to trim conventional military forces while increasing investments in a handful of areas including intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, unmanned systems, space programs, cyberspace capabilities, and platforms that project U.S. forces rapidly around the world, officials said today. President Obama told Pentagon reporters that the new strategy -- which he called for last year, and which is designed to recalibrate the armed forces to absorb $489 billion in spending cuts over the next...
