Army Looks Beyond Budget Cuts To The 'Deep Future' -- Aol Defense
WASHINGTON: Forget sequestration. Never mind fiscal 2013. The Army knows it's in for a tough decade, not just a tough year -- but it's already thinking way ahead, past 2020.
With the Iraq war over, Afghanistan (slowly) winding down, and a new strategy that emphasizes Navy and Marine Corps operations in the Pacific, the Army is painfully aware it's going to shrink. The service increasingly focuses on how to make it through the coming long, lean years to the decades beyond.
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