Acting deputy defense secretary Gordon England is telling the Army to get ready to cut $11.7 billion from its budget over the next several years, Inside Defense is reporting.

But instead of paring back its weapons systems or its massive modernization efforts, the Army is threatening to reduce the number of soldiers in the service.

I'm not sure what the logic behind a move like this would be. I would guess it is some sort of political pusturing. There's just been too much demand to expand the U.S. Army and I don't see them going back on that now.

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