Hagel, Top Brass To Discuss Review On Strategic Choices

By Christopher J. Castelli / June 7, 2013 at 8:10 PM
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will meet next week with service leaders and combatant commanders to discuss the department's Strategic Choices and Management Review and consider options for shrinking forces, curtailing capabilities and making other big changes in response to looming fiscal challenges, according to Pentagon and service sources. "The COCOMs are expected to discuss the review with the secretary," a senior defense official said of the Secretary's Leadership Council meeting, slated for June 13 and 14. The COCOMs have participated...

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