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Iraq the killing of osama bin laden, gadhafi being depose and other successes that the administration has had and emphasizing the fact this posture will change, leave to colonel jacobs the implications for forced posture and readiness, the defense spending is going to continue to grow, just not going to grow as rapid a rate and obviously, shifting emphasis, as you heard the secretary say from europe to the pacific rim in the middle east. >> you were madly writing notes during both of those speeches so what does it say to you about how we will operate in the future on this leaner, more defined ...

Other successes that the administration has had and emphasizing the fact this posture will change, leave to colonel jacobs the implications for forced posture and readiness, the defense spending is going to continue to grow, just not going to grow as rapid a rate and obviously, shifting emphasis, as you heard the secretary say from europe to the pacific rim in the middle east. >> you were madly writing notes during both of those speeches so what does it say to you about how we will operate in the future on this leaner, more defined military? >> yeah, this speech is tremendous because of its im...

Very happy that you made time for us today, general. good to see you. >> it's good to see you, martha. good morning. martha: obviously, there's cuts across the board, and the military has to, basically, cut $350 billion over the next ten years. do you agree that it's impossible to do that without some of that coming from these combat brigades? >> well, the intent is to cut some force structure out of the army. the challenge we have, martha, is that the army already is too small. that is the reason why there's been so much stress and strain on our forces by these continual rotations. we would n...

Be accomplished without reduction to force structure and military capability." what's force structure? several of the services, carl, already looking at downsizing and further cuts in their own spending. carol? >> and also, barbara, if this becomes a big problem for the pentagon what do they do? >> well, yeah, you know, where do you turn next, if they are already saying that they can't handle more defense cuts? the pentagon says, look this can't be just an arithmetic exercise to cut military spending, you know, slash from the top, slash from the bottom, they need to look at security strategies...

Right? >> well, a senior u.s. intelligence official tells me tonight that they still have some indication that qaddafi's son, hamess in charge of the brigades. one of the most notorious brigades in his force structure that he may have been killed in recent days by coalition bombs in the tripoli area. you heard secretary of state clinton mention that two nights ago in an interview that she did. i'm being told tonight from intelligence officials, they still have indications that may have been killed. they can't confirm it but they think he might be dead. >> shepard: we'll know soon enough. jenni...