President Barack Obama unveiled a new military strategy to reduce defense spending while shifting the U.S. focus from Iraq and Afghanistan toward the Pacific and addressing evolving challenges from China and Iran/.../
Asked for details on how the Defense Department may go about meeting the goals, Panetta said those plans won’t be released until the Pentagon presents its 2013 budget request to Congress by early February.
The absence of details is like getting the “diagnosis right, but it’s not sure what the prescription is or if they’ve the resources to fill the prescription,” Andrew Krepinevich, a military analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments in Washington, said in a telephone interview. “This is strategy on an installment.”