Retired Pentagon officials predicted yesterday that so-called sequestration budget cuts to the Pentagon would gut the National Guard and result in painful Guard-related job losses in congressional districts across the country. While the defense industry and Pentagon-minded lawmakers have been holding events detailing the harm they say the potential across-the-board cuts would reap on the military, two former Pentagon leaders sought in Washington to highlight the impact they see on the Army and Air National Guard’s ability to respond to domestic…
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Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) leadership on Tuesday criticized the Trump administration’s new National Defense Strategy (NDS) and pressed the Pentagon’s top policy official to explain the document’s priorities. SASC […]