Dempsey: DOD Review Weighing Full Impact Of Further Sequestration

By Christopher J. Castelli / April 10, 2013 at 9:47 PM
An ongoing Pentagon review is examining how the Defense Department would weather more massive budget cuts if Congress permits another round of sequestration in fiscal year 2014 -- spending reductions not accounted for in the Obama administration's new $526.6 billion defense budget request, the nation's top military officer said today. "Using the president's defense strategy from a year ago as the foundation, we're running several excursions -- alternative futures, one of which is full sequestration, because I want to be...

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