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Axe to fall on US Army programmes

5th April 2018 - 18:58 GMT | by Ashley Roque in Washington DC

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The US Army leadership is deciding which programmes to cut in a bid to ensure funds are available in the coming years to pay for their six modernisation priorities.

Speaking 5 April at The Heritage Foundation — a conservative think thank — US Army Secretary Mark Esper said that the service is looking at its portfolio of 800-plus programmes in order to decide which stay, which will be slowed down and which get the axe. 

'We just can't continue to ramble along funding 800 programmes when you have higher priority needs,' Esper told the audience. 'That's spreading the peanut butter…and

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