The Army faces a challenging year ahead with the next defense budget, where it will have to balance readiness and modernization against what is speculated to be a flat budget, the acting Army secretary said yesterday. The service will try to protect readiness "at all costs," John Whitley said at an April 27 Center for New American Security event. "We're going to try to protect as much of modernization as we can at all costs. But there is not a...
