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Review of New Defense Strategy Ordered By May 31

Julie Samuel

Tuesday, March 19th, 2013

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The Pentagon is reviewing the new Defense Strategic Guidance it released last year in light of fiscal constraints, but said it has not gone as far as to end the so-called pivot to Asia that is central to that strategy. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel directed senior leaders last week to “conduct a review to examine the choices that underlie the Department of Defense’s strategy, force posture, investments, and institutional management--including all past assumptions, systems, and practices,” Pentagon press secretary George…

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Pentagon

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Congress

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