"With respect to this question of when the cuts started, we obviously began reductions as the cold war ended in 1990 and '91, in the aftermath of Desert Storm," Mr. Cheney said yesterday on the ABC program "This Week With Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts," one of three Sunday morning talk programs he appeared on to discuss military preparedness.
"But we started with a reduction of 25 percent in force structure," Mr. Cheney continued.