The logic has been simply baffling to me: expand our military commitments while cutting our armed forces.
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The United States has said that a restoration of its previous relations with Indonesia depends both on the armed forces cutting their links with the militias and on an improvement in West Timor, where more than 200, 000 East Timorese are thought to have been moved.
Other options include cutting the number of forces in Scotland from eight to as few as three or four.
The BBC's Steve Rosenberg, in Moscow, says that in the six years that Mr Serdyukov was defence minister, he tried to reform Russia's outdated armed forces by cutting costs and personnel and by boosting efficiency.
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Cost-cutting is being driven by two forces: new distribution channels and mergers.
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Scottish Conservatices justice spokesman John Lamont congratulated Scotland's police forces for their efforts in cutting overall crime rates.
They like to point out, too, that America has abandoned them before, cutting aid and military support when Soviet forces left Afghanistan at the end of the 1980s.
Only IBM, with its huge mainframe and services businesses, seems able to defend itself as Dell turns once-profitable products into commodities and forces competitors into a cost-cutting game they cannot win.
Both created many millions of jobs by unleashing free market forces: firming up the dollar, cutting or maintaining low marginal tax rates, deregulating business, freeing trade, reforming welfare.
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The coalition government said the new commissioners would be elected by the public to hold police forces to account with the aim of cutting crime and delivering an effective and efficient police service.
In April, opposition forces managed to take Bamiyan, in central Afghanistan, cutting off the Taliban's supply route to the north-west.
Mr Bush had hoped to spend his capital from cutting taxes on partly privatising Social Security and reorganising America's armed forces (see article).
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