Hillary Clinton Calls For Massive Cuts In U.S. Defense Spending

Clinton with U.S. soldiers in Kabul, Afghanistan, November 2009. Mustafa Quraishi / AP 

Daily Mail: Hillary Clinton calls on Pentagon to slash spending on F-35 stealth fighters, tanks, aircraft carriers and nuclear weapons and says they WON'T help in a war with China as she warns 'deep savings' in the military budget must be found 

 * Clinton penned a lengthy column on defense policy for Foreign Affairs magazine 

 * In it, she argues much defense spending should be shifted to 'domestic renewal' 

 * Clinton argues that military spending is out of line with current world threats 

 * Notes that China has 'asymmetric' capabilities that could take out carriers 

 * Believes that large land wars are no longer a possibility in the modern world 

 * Says domestic supply chains, climate change and pandemics are bigger threats 

 * In a separate essay, she argues Joe Biden is the best candidate to 'right the ship' 

Hillary Clinton has called on Congress to slash the Pentagon's budget and shift funding to 'domestic renewal' and foreign diplomacy, arguing that expensive weapons systems from the Cold War and war on terror are no longer needed. 

In a lengthy essay published in Foreign Affairs magazine on Friday, the former secretary of state laid out her vision for restructuring U.S. defense spending, while accusing the Trump administration of mismanagement. 

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WNU Editor: Her Foreign Policy column is here .... A National Security Reckoning (Hillary Clinton, Foreign Affairs). As to what is my take. Why the column? Is she looking for a job in a Biden administration?

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