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The U.S. military's ability to stay ahead of technology advances by other
countries and respond to multiple crises around the world is already in
jeopardy and will get worse unless mandatory budget cuts are reversed, top
U.S. officials warned on Saturday.
Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jonathan Greenert told Reuters the Navy
would have to cut forces and reduce its ability to position ships around the
world if lawmakers did not ease or reverse the cuts, which are due to resume
in fiscal 2016.
"Electronic warfare, electronic attack, anti-submarine warfare - all of
these higher end areas - will fall further behind because we're just not
investing in them," he said in an interview at a conference at the Reagan
Presidential Library.
He said the Navy's ability to stay ahead of potential adversaries would
"degrade significantly" unless the cuts ended.
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