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DoD Unveils Strategic Choices Review

Julie Samuel

Thursday, August 1st, 2013

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DoD Unveils Strategic Choices Review

Pentagon leaders unveiled on Wednesday the findings of their multi-month review of the potential impacts of sequestration budget cuts, offering competing plans for cutting either troops or high-end equipment. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered the Strategic Choices and Management Review shortly after the $500 billion in decade-long “sequestration” budget cuts started March 1 (Defense Daily, March 19). Hagel told reporters Wednesday at the Pentagon that the review did not yield a “detailed budget blueprint,” but instead spurred “a menu of…

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