Charticle: Defense spending at historic lows

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President Obama announced deep new military cuts last week that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said would mean “some level of additional but acceptable risk.” But as this Heritage Foundation chart shows, defense spending as a percentage of the total U.S. budget is already at 60-year lows.

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