New Military Strategy Calls Debt 'Significant National Security Risk'

By Jason Sherman / February 8, 2011 at 7:02 PM
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff today unveiled a new National Military Strategy that calls the growing national debt a "significant security risk," braces for an era of tightening defense expenditures, and reframes military objectives to deal with a wide and increasingly complex array of global security challenges. The new strategy -- a significant revision to the 2004 version -- is considered central to the Pentagon's canon of strategic documents that ultimately influence everything from operational and war...

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