ALLARD: Targets for Chuck Hagel’s new ax

The commentary below by a retired Army colonel (and TV analyst) makes what I believe is an essential point: in the cutting that will be occurring in coming months, start at the top--removing the civilian and military clog up there and--just as importantly--setting a moral and intellectual example that the last thing to be cut should be the sharp end of the forces.  Clearly, the current Joint Chiefs have it exactly backwards, which suggests yet another example that the new secretary of defense needs to consider making.

 

If Chuck Hagel has the gravitas that he clearly did not demonstrate in his confirmation hearings, the time to show it is now.

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Winslow T. Wheeler
Director
Straus Military Reform Project,
Center for Defense Information at the
Project On Government Oversight (POGO)
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ALLARD: Targets for Chuck Hagel’s new ax

Some military spending cuts would be a good thing

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