It was bad enough that the 2012 defense authorization bill signed by President Obama set America on a downward spiral of military mediocrity.

He also issued a signing statement, something he once opposed, saying that language in the bill aimed at protecting top-secret technical data on the U.S. Standard Missile-3 — linchpin of our missile defense — might impinge on his constitutional foreign-policy authority.

Betraying our secrets is easy for a president who betrayed allies Poland and the Czech Republic to placate Moscow.

As we gut our military budget and scrap major weapons systems, Russia continues to rearm. It recently announced the deployment of its new RSM-56 Bulava submarine launched ballistic missile — a three-stage weapon that can carry up to 10 individually targeted warheads.

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The new strategy is based purely around the roughly $490 billion in cuts to the defense budget over 10 years that Congress decided on last summer. According to those familiar with the report, the future U.S. military will have the ability to fight only one major land war at a time. Any addition battles would have to be fought primarily from the sea and air.

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