Top US Marine's Wish-list for Trump Goes Well Beyond Troop Hikes

U.S. Marine Corps Commandant General Robert Neller, like much of the Pentagon top brass, is pretty happy about President-elect Donald Trump's campaign pledge to rebuild America's military after years of congressionally imposed spending caps. But ask Neller about Trump's main proposal to increase the number of Marine infantry battalions from 24 today to 36, and he pauses. "That's a lot," Neller told Reuters in an interview. Neller, like many of his Pentagon...

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