NEW YORK -- The Defense Department is bracing for a directive to cut its fiscal year 2012 budget proposal and to forfeit to the federal treasury some portion of the $100 billion in efficiencies that Pentagon leaders originally hoped to reinvest in weapon system modernization accounts over the next five years, the U.S. military's No. 2 uniformed officer predicted today. Gen. James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he had “zero” confidence the Pentagon will be...
