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Active members of the military. they could potentially go down 100,000 or so. >> yes. eric: 440 to 450,000. colonel, look at our adversaries rivals, enemies. china, 2.2 million active duty members. that is five or six times more. north korea, 1.2 million. russia, double, 800,000? we would be below, ready for this, we would be below turkey. turkey has 510,000. we would be egypt, 43thousand. would be above miramar, 40thousand. what does it mean the united states of america has basically the same t...

Dinner sunday night, which included a number of governors who hope to have his job in 2016. he appealed to the state leaders to work with him on key issues like the economy, education, health care in what he hopes will be "a year of action." big news from the pentagon and u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel, putting out a new budget, which would shrink the army to its lowest troop level since before world war ii. pentagon officials say the budget cuts will result in a military thats too small f...

Lead his troops as they become one of the last troops to delouis in this war. and in the coming months more of our troops will come home. this winter, our troop level will be down to 34,000. and this time next year it will be nearly complete. the longest war in american history will end. [ applause ] as it true after every conflict, theres a risk that the devoted service of our veterans could fade from the forefront of our minds, that we might turn to other things. but part of the reason were ...

Maintaining that troop level, withdrawing those troops from afghanistan, and if theres an arrangement worked out as you heard the foreign minister say, to keep another 10,000 troops in afghanistan beyond 2014, beyond the end of next year, billions more will be spent in afghanistan. and the question is, is that money being well spent? should the u.s. be spending $100 billion, lets say between now and the end of next year, on keeping that troop presence in afghanistan or take that $100 billion and...

Iraq now because the u.s. and iraq couldnt reach an agreement on immunity for the united states. how is the u.s./afghanistan relationship right now? >> solid. >> solid? >> yeah. >> foreign minister, thank you for joining us. good luck to you and all the people of afghanistan. >> thank you. >> i asked the foreign minister, by the way, if he might run for president. hamid karzai, his term is over with next year. he said hes not running again, cant run again. the foreign minister told me he would m...

Began making, this man has seen war, as he put it yesterday, from the bottom up. he has seen it from the perspective of the enlisted man, and he would be the first enlisted man to have the defense department, and he has not only a compassion, but an understanding for what it takes to keep and attract and retain the leaders and war fighters of the future, which is critical at a time when were downsizing our troop level. we all say our biggest asset is our people, but this man has an understanding...

To defend southeast asia. >> when vietnam started, it was a popular war. most of the soldiers, sailors and the airman and marines who served there were volunteers. they werent draftees. as the war progressed and the troop numbers went up, more people got drafted. the demonstration started. >> february 13, 1965. president johnso johnson johnsos operation rolling thunder. two months later north vietnam rejects the u.s. offer of economic aid in exchange for peace. president johnson increases troop ...

In or deal with al qaeda resurgent and potentially launching attacks against us. so we try to create a responsible pathway for an exit, whereby the end of 2014 well have all our troops out. >> but discussions about an altered timetable are already under way following a string of incidents that have inflamed tensions between afghans and u.s. troops. just two months ago images surfaced showing u.s. troops urinating on fighters. then the burning of koran sparked vie leaolent protests. so far the re...

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Plan? what kind of troop level will we see in the region after the new year? >> the u.s. military had planned on keeping a small number of forces in iraq to provide training and guidance advisers to the iraqi government. but also to serve as sort of a trip wire and a hedge against the neighboring country there of iran. so when talks between the u.s. and iraq broke down about keeping some american troops there, the pentagon and military started to scramble to figure out, well, how are we going to...