Army Chief Won't Back Down On End Strength Numbers As Sequestration Threatens

By Tony Bertuca / March 13, 2014 at 6:18 PM
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno continued to dig in his heels today on his position that the service will be unable to execute the Pentagon's Defense Strategic Guidance if it shrinks to a sequestration-level end strength of 420,000 -- and he plans to take that message to Capitol Hill. "We won't be able to execute the guidance; we'll have to write new guidance that will define what we can and can't do," Odierno said during an appearance at...

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