Obama on Defense spending

In a July 2^nd speech, Obama said: “We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set.  We’ve got to have a Civilian National Security Force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”  Secretary of Defense Robert Gates came up with the idea for a more modern State Department and a "civilian national security force" that could "deploy teams that combine agricultural specialists and engineers and linguists and cultural specialists who are prepared to go into some of the most dangerous areas alongside the military."  

Watch this (15 sec) clip from Obama’s speech.  Obama’s camp inexplicably deleted references to the initiative from his website while others mysteriously disappeared from transcripts of the speech distributed by the campaign.