The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. February 24, 2014 Pentagon to Scale Back Army, Keep Funding for Special Operations ----------------------------------------------------------------- Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is set to release a plan today to scale back the U.S. army to its smallest force since before World War II. Ahead of the plan's release today, unnamed officials told the New York Times the plan would protect funding for Special Operations and cyberwarfare. .