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Security Experts Say Strategic Choices Options Could Be Worse For Navy, Marine Corps
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s July 31 Pentagon briefing on the results of his Strategic Choices and Management Review were grim, but some of the options he did not discuss could be even worse for the Navy and Marine Corps, according to a team of experts from four national security think tanks who met Aug. 1 with Pentagon officials who had conducted the review, commonly known as SCMR.
Pentagon Officials Press Congress For More Time On Budget Cuts
A day after the Pentagon outlined the stark choices it confronts due to looming budget cuts in coming years, top defense officials pressed Congress to give them the time and flexibility to make the reductions without undermining security.
Hagel Outlines Bleak Future for Pentagon
Automatic budgets cuts will force the Pentagon to slash its ranks or trash its plans to buy new weapons, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced Wednesday.
Pentagon Lays Out Ways to Slash Spending
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Wednesday laid out options for implementing the Pentagon's share of broad spending cuts known as the sequester, including shrinking the Army from 490,000 under current targets to a force as small as 380,000—far below even its modern low point at the end of the Clinton administration/.../
Tactical Military Satellite Comms Need Hardening, Says CSBA Study
Increasing military use of satellite communication for tactical operations means the Defense Department should create a new tier of protected space systems, says the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments's Todd Harrison.
Study: New MILSAT Strategies Needed
A new study on military satellite communications says new strategies are needed to enhance capabilities in a time of budget restraints.