I feel bad for not providing more context in the last post: after all, this is no laughing matter. That thirty-five (or three-and-a-half - hey, who’s counting?) billion dollars is, in fact

the amount of money slated to be spent between now and 2011 on reorganizing all Army forces as well as increasing active Army combat brigades by 30 percent.

There. Context! Alas, this is immediately construed as

In five years, the U.S. Army will occupy 30 percent more of the world — good news for weapons industries and global outsourcing opportunities.

No. That’s not what the last sentence you wrote means.

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