Chief: Smaller Army means rewriting strategic guidance

Odierno Won't Back Down On Troop Numbers As Sequestration Threatens

/ March 14, 2014 at 9:38 PM
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno last week continued to insist that the service will be unable to execute the Pentagon's 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 a March 13 appearance at the Center for Strategic...

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