defense cuts
Pentagon budget slashes
Defense cuts are reductions in military spending or armed forces capacity.
Governments implement defense cuts to reduce budgets, shift priorities, or respond to changing security environments.
The term often appears in political debate, where critics warn that cuts weaken national security while supporters argue resources are better spent elsewhere: The proposed defense cuts would eliminate two aircraft carrier groups.
- militaryArmed forces collectively
- budgetPlan for spending
- PentagonU.S. military headquarters
- spendingOutlaying of funds
- sequestrationAct of setting apart
austerity · downsizing · troop levels · troops · reduction · bases · closure · veterans · weapons · procurement · readiness · national security · drawdown · demobilization · Congress · hawks · doves · peacetime
- arms controlarms control, disarmament, nonproliferation, arms deals, arms reduction
- austerityausterity measures, fiscal austerity, deficit reduction, belt tightening, fiscal discipline
- military policymilitary spending, troop deployment, national security, military reform, strategic planning
- demobilizationdemob, demobilize, demobilization, disband, disbanding
- fiscal policybudget deficit, deficit spending, national budget, budget surplus, budget deficits
- Soviet economicscommand economy, planned economy, five-year plan, collectivization, collective farms
defense cutsmilitarization
Adapting for warfare purposes
war footing · military preparedness · arms race · saber-rattling · military readiness
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