Mission Cuts?

The Defense Department might eliminate some of its missions during the Obama administration’s upcoming round of defense cuts, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos said today at a conference sponsored by the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis and Tufts University's Fletcher School. Amos said missions deemed unreasonable or unaffordable might be targeted, but he had no guess what those might be. He also said DOD might cut the capacity to do different missions simultaneously.

Earlier this week, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said President Obama's call Wednesday for a new review to find more savings in the defense budget would require careful attention to "managing risk" and determining which missions "the country is willing to have the military forgo."