The Defense Department is packing a six-year spending plan with $1.8 billion in new and enhanced programs designed to train and equip foreign forces to assist the U.S. military in counterterrorism operations, according to internal budget documents. The Pentagon has teed up a $720 million down payment in its fiscal year 2008 budget request for initiatives that collectively embody efforts to "build partnership capacity," a key goal of the blueprint for future U.S. military capabilities set forth in last year's...
