This staggering amount is the result of decades of short-sighted policy and underfunding.

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Lynn Dang, a former IBM employee posted to Facebook that the policy is silly and short-sighted for three reasons.

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Dangerous, short-sighted and historically ignorant are all apt descriptions of a policy that fails to invest in the U.S. military in peacetime.

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