claim: president obama has left the u.s. with the lowest number of active-duty troops since before world war ii, putting the nation at risk.
author: jack kingston
evidence_1: the result is a chickenhawk nation in which careless spending and strategic folly  ... too, since so many aspects of public figures' appearances before the troops  have ... through the decade after world war ii, when so many american families  had at ... the u.s. military has about 1.4 million people on active duty and  another ...
evidence_2: president obama has left the u.s. with the lowest number of active-duty troops  since before world war ii, putting the nation at risk. — politifact georgia on ...
evidence_3: jan 8, 2017 ... president barack obama will step down after eight years as ... to end u.s.  involvement in iraq and afghanistan but instead leaves as the first american ...  the globe, as we have been since the end of world war ii," carter wrote. ... still,  many troops see obama less as a wartime commander in chief and more ...
evidence_4: apr 29, 2016 ... army trainers conduct drills at a military base in taji, iraq last year. ... president  obama has slashed defense spending and will leave his ... wars in iraq and  afghanistan — and the expectations that pentagon ... since 1949, in raw dollars,  u.s. military spending increased to a record high after the 9/11 attacks ...
evidence_5: jun 26, 2017 ... first, military intervention and nation building efforts, even at current “light  footprint” .... it is true that obama pulled u.s. troops out of iraq, a move that would  later ... source: global terrorism database at the university of maryland. in ...  before and since 9/11, the most catastrophic terror attacks have occurred ...