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For $553 billion for the base budget as well as $118 billion to fund the current wars and he has cut many billions from the budget but warns any further cuts could be dangerous. take a listen. we shrink from our global security responsibilities at our peril. we have short sided cuts that could lead to tragic consequences later. indeed as they always have in the past. >> gates has suggested cutting the army in 2015 by 27,000 troops and the mains by between 15,000 and 20,000 by 2015 and another interesting figure from the hearings today, there will be only 150 u.s. troops left in iraq by the beg...

Still plenty of spending, plenty of big-dollar figures. the 2012 budget looks like it will shape up this way. about $553 billion in spending to be requested. now, that's actually about a 5% or so increase in spending over last year, accordingly to some experts' calculations. that's the highest budget ever at the pentagon, and that doesn't even begin to account for the $100 billion or so still being spend to fight the wars in iraq and afghanistan, another $30 billion on top of that from the department of energy to help run the nation's nuclear weapons facilities and capabilities. so where's the...

Audio technology. another critical issue right now is whether and if so how much the u.s. should share sensitive missile defense technology with russia. opponents including 39 republican lawmakers who have written to president obama on this issue says the kremlin cannot be trusted with such data. fox news spoke with a former soviet military officer who disagreed. >> i think that the pentagon because it very much reflects the uniformed military is less interested in missile defense with missile defense cooperation with russia than is the political leadership. for the political leadership this i...