US skimps on troops, spends on tech [View All]

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Amid one of the greatest military spending increases in history, the Pentagon is starved for cash.

The US will spend more than US$500 billion on national security in the fiscal year that began yesterday. That represents a high-water mark, and it is creating boom times in the armaments industry.

Yet the military says it has run US$1 billion a month short over the last year paying for the basics of war in Iraq: troops, equipment, spare parts and training.

The disparity between spending on the arsenals of the future and the armies of today is great, and growing.

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