Pentagon’s Budget War Games -- Washington TimesPanetta, military officers confer on funding ‘sequestration’.
The nation’s highest-ranking military officers convened at the Pentagon last week to discuss the smaller armed forces they will inherit once $450 billion in cuts commence in 2013.
A defense source briefed on the discussion with Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said scenarios such as confronting a world crisis with nine aircraft carriers instead of the current 11 were discussed.
Officials also talked about meeting world requirements with an active/reserve force that is tens of thousands of personnel fewer than the current 2.2 million all-volunteer military.
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My Comment: The impression that I am receiving from the defense chiefs is clear .... they are not going to fight against funding ‘sequestration’ .... in fact .... they will not even make the case on the consequences of such an action. Instead .... because it appears that they still want their jobs (they are not going to quit) .... they will comply with the government's decision to cut the very force that they have spent a lifetime building and will do so with no public opposition.