The head of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) said yesterday he wished Pentagon brass didn’t wait “until the midnight hour” to issue a stark warning that pending budget cuts put military readiness at the “tipping point.” The Joint Chiefs of Staff wrote in a Jan. 14 letter that, because of fiscal uncertainty, “we are at grave risk of an imposed mismatch between the size of our nation’s military force and the funding required to maintain its readiness, which will…
McKeon: Joint Chiefs’ Dire Warning Comes Late
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