| DoD Sec. Panetta has already been quite vocal, saying - without offering any evidence - that the $600 billion cuts in national security spending that would result if the debt ceiling deal's so-called trigger mechanism takes effect would be a "doomsday mechanism," "dangerous," and "devastating."
The Post reports that according to internal memos, the Pentagon will rely on a similar strategy, namely that the trigger scenario would result in "only enough force presence for two theaters and 1.5 major conflicts," as well as "the smallest Navy fleet since 1915." But as the Post notes, this simply isn't true: "Both claims are highly misleading, if not downright false. In its 2010 Defense Review, the Pentagon concluded that it no longer made strategic sense to prepare to fight two major conventional wars at the same time, but rather to plan for a variety of conflicts of different sizes. |
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