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...Besides the F-22, other casualties will be a new search-and-rescue helicopter and the Army's Future Combat Systems program - a $160 billion fleet of high-tech vehicles and aircraft that is ideal for waging war against a powerfully armed nation-state but is of far less use for the kinds of counterinsurgency wars currently being waged. And the Navy's shipbuilding program, which has been shoddily run for years, will see some cuts. Gates also plans to cut spending on missile defense by $1.4 billion next year, while new satellite communications programs are trimmed. And the Marines...
...military currently has 183 of the $350 million-a-piece F-22s on order, and four more will be added to the 2009 emergency war-funding budget. But the advanced fighter has not been used in either Iraq or Afghanistan, and Gates believes that, given the more pressing spending priorities, the military has as many F-22s as it needs. Instead, Gates will commit to increasing the supply of the next-generation F-35 Joint Strike Fighter as well as weapons systems designed to enhance U.S. capability in current conflicts, from unmanned drones and defenses against medium-range missiles...
Addressing Turkey's parliament on his first visit to a Muslim nation as President, Barack Obama reached out to followers of Islam everywhere. "Let me say this as clearly as I can: the United States is not and will never be at war with Islam," he said to applause. "In fact, our partnership with the Muslim world is critical in rolling back a fringe ideology that people of all faiths reject." Obama said the U.S. has been enriched by Muslim Americans, including members of his own family...
...years ago. And eight military divisions with as many as 50,000 personnel backed by air support are going in for the kill, with escape and supply routes by sea blocked off by a naval blockade. (Watch TIME's video of civilians caught in the Sri Lankan civil war...
...pictures of Sri Lanka on the brink of civil war...