From DefenseNews

 

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Canada to Pull Out of NATO Air Surveillance

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

Published: 9 Jun 2011 20:27

 

OTTAWA - Canadian Forces will soon announce their withdrawal from a key NATO air surveillance program as part of cost-cutting measures, an official told AFP June 9.

 

And so it begins, or continues. Expect more of the same if buy the F-35 and have to struggle to support that single component of the force at the expense of other programs and capabilities.

I have more sympathy for the Canadians than most of the rest of NATO... But I can't help thinking that the US should start quickly drawing down support for international work (that we don't have a large interest in) so that the rest of the folks don't feel they can cut budgets and free-ride on the fairly large (currently) shoulders of the US military.

 

'Course, the nihilist in me says yank it all back home (with appropriate and enforced promises that annoying us gets your country broken *but not rebuilt*) and watch the world burn... Figuratively, of course.