Army Bases Bleed, Then BRAC Comes

Army Bases Bleed, Then BRAC Comes
Army Bases Bleed, Then BRAC Comes

WASHINGTON: Congress hates base closures, known as BRAC. But it turns out you don’t need a Base Realignment And Closure round to hurt homestate economies. If you cut the Army by 120,000 (from a wartime peak of 570,000 to 450,000), and prohibit the Pentagon from closing bases, what you get — instead of wholesale shutdowns…