Word: overstretched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well in advance of a national vote. It was his long-awaited White Paper outlining a new "defense posture for the 1970s." While Wilson was in Moscow, Defense Secretary Denis Healey presented that posture to the House of Commons. Object of the plan was to reduce Britain's "overstretch" by trimming the strength of its armed forces abroad by one-third and cutting expenditures by one-sixth to $5.6 billion annually-a figure that would then represent about 6% of Britain's gross national product...