More Guns, Fewer Generals
According to
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel,
if Congress is not able to remove the effects of sequestration for the
fiscal year 2016 budget, the U.S. Army will dwindle to just 420,000
troops by 2019. A February 28
Congressional Research Service (CRS)
study reports that senior Army leaders have claimed that such
reductions would leave the resulting Army lacking “the capacity to
conduct simultaneous major combat operations while defending the nation
at home.” They are right, but this is not the fault of Congress as many
claim. Instead, the dwindling capability of the U.S. Army is primarily
self-inflicted.
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