The congressional supercommittee has two months to come up with a way to slash more than a trillion dollars from the federal deficit or risk deeper cuts that would be triggered automatically/.../ Everything is on the table in the debate — including defense spending.The heads of each branch of the military are making their case and explaining why their service is special/.../
"The name of the game right now is differentiation," says Todd Harrison, a senior fellow with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments in Washington. You're going to see both the Air Force and the Navy trying to define how they are relevant and how their capabilities are increasingly important in the future. "You're going to see the Marine Corps trying to define themselves as something more than just a second land army," Harrison explains. "You're going to see both the Air Force and the Navy trying to define how they are relevant and how their capabilities are increasingly important in the future."