United States 2017 by the end of their 40-thousand troops remain in the country and abroad will reduce. On Tuesday, a defense ministry official said.


The report of the Ministry, as part of efforts to reduce the US military will be cut from 17 thousand civilian workers.
US Army officially announced the plan at the end of this week may be. If the plan is implemented by the end of the 2017 US military will reduce the number of four million.
Incidentally, the United States Army during the war in Iraq and Afghanistan had the highest. At that time, the US military men and women were nearly five lakh 70 thousand members.