The Army’s Mission For 2014: Holding Its Ground

The Army’s Mission For 2014: Holding Its Ground
The Army’s Mission For 2014: Holding Its Ground

Yesterday’s Senate passage of the budget deal took $20 billion worth of pressure off the Pentagon. But for the Army the deal just dials the pain back down from “agonizing” to “acute.” The largest service has more to lose in the post-war drawdown (which happens to have begun before the war is actually over). In…

Best Case For Sequester Is Still Disaster, Top Experts Say

Best Case For Sequester Is Still Disaster, Top Experts Say
Best Case For Sequester Is Still Disaster, Top Experts Say

CAPITOL HILL: The best case for sequester is still a disaster – but we’re not going to get the best case. That’s the common denominator from a range of budget options rolled out today by an extraordinary alliance of four thinktanks. Their consensus recommendations to cut military readiness, Army brigades, Navy carriers, Air Force ICBMs,…