The 10 Years' War: Army Plans For Sequestration Cuts Through 2022 -- Aol Defense
FORT LAUDERDALE: As automatic cuts to the 2013 budget look increasingly unavoidable, with the deadline for a Congressional deal only a week away, Army leaders are preparing fallback positions to defend the service from a full decade of sequester cuts. That includes new guidance on cutting modernization and planning for potential cuts to personnel and combat brigades.
"Sequestration is not just FY '13," said Lt. Gen. James Barclay, the deputy chief of staff for resources (G-8) on the Army staff, in remarks to the Association of the US Army's winter conference. "We have nine more years of sequestration facing us unless the act is changed."
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