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Pentagon Drops Plan to Close Domestic Military Bases

• http://news.antiwar.com, by John Glaser
 The Defense Department is abandoning its plan to close several domestic military bases across the country, claiming to focus instead on closing military installations overseas, according to Secretary Leon Panetta.
 
“I had no illusions that [base closures] would be an easy sell politically, but we had a responsibility … to put everything on the table,” Panetta said in a speech at the annual conference of the Association of Defense Communities in Monterey, Calif. “It is now clear that there will not be a round of [closures] authorized in 2013.”

The considerations were labeled in the media as some sort of draconian scaling back of the enormous standing army in the country. But the scope of the domestic military establishment is enormous.Only two of the 50 states – Rhode Island and New Hampshire – have no Army bases.


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