U.S. Secretary of Defense recommended the abolition of the U.S. Joint Forces Command
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (Xinhua Wang Fengfeng) 9, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he had proposed the abolition of the U.S. Joint Forces Command, in order to save defense spending. He also suggested that each of the next three years 10% reduction in defense spending for contractors.
Gates held a news conference at the Pentagon that day, announced a series of measures to cut defense spending. He said the U.S. Joint Forces Command is a joint training, discipline and action to arbitration and support department, but it also means a department redundant layer of bureaucracy. He estimated that the abolition of this command takes about a year.
Gates said that about any 雷奥迪尔诺 Commander Joint Forces Command Joint Forces Command to support the abolition of the decision. Aodiernuo the inaugural mission is to be abolished this command, the task, once completed, he will have another appointment.
In addition, Gates said the Defense Department each year in the next 3 years 10% reduction in defense spending for contractors, contractors contract expires, the Ministry of National Defense will no longer automatically look for new replace them. Gates also called for freezing the senior civilian and military officials of the Ministry of Defence the number of cuts for the next two years at least 50 general-level military positions and 150 senior civilian positions.
Gates in June ordered the Defense Ministry and armed forces reduction of unnecessary expenses in order to save the next five years, more than 100 billion U.S. dollars. He announced the plan on the 9th of this cost-cutting command is specific implementation. Gates said the Defense Department plan is not to cut the key expenditure items, but save on unnecessary expenses, will be limited funding for the troops up the restructuring and modernization.
Joint Forces Command in Virginia, Rod Snow, has about 5,000 employees and an annual wage would only spend about 200 million U.S. dollars. The Command is not responsible for war planning and command, but organizes joint training or joint training for the U.S. military's global humanitarian missions and disaster relief missions such as training of military forces. The command was originally built in 1993, renamed in 1999 by the Atlantic Command Joint Forces Command.
United States is the world's countries with the highest military expenditure. In Iraq and Afghanistan, not counting the premise of war spending, the U.S. defense budget for the current fiscal year to reach 535 billion U.S. dollars. The U.S. government submitted to Congress the next fiscal year defense budget of 549 billion U.S. dollars.
