The Americas

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The central focus for the US military in 2010 has been on counter-insurgency operations in both Iraq and, to a greater extent, Afghanistan. Operation ‘ Enduring Freedom’ in Iraq has been declared complete after seven years with combat mission ostensibly ending there and is now conducting Operation ‘New Dawn’ with 50,000 US troops remaining with an advise-and-assist mission, while about 100,000 US troops are in Afghanistan as part of a ‘surge’ of forces into that country.

Meanwhile, the US Department of Defense (DoD) is in the process of significant budget overhaul after Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced an initiative in May 2010 to streamline defence spending and transfer funding from overhead costs to war fighting costs. This funding shuffle is intended to find more than USD 100 billion in savings in the next five years.

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