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Sequestration Would Force Revised Global Strategy, Senior Marine Says

Defense Daily Staff

Thursday, April 19th, 2012

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NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- The military would not be able to carry out the Obama administration's global military strategy under budget sequestration, which would require rewriting the new doctrine, Marine Assistant Commandant Gen. Joseph Dunford warned yesterday. "If we have sequestration, the current strategy is not executable," Dunford said at the Navy League's Sea Air Space Exposition outside Washington. The draconian budget measure that could take effect in January would force the White House to "fundamentally change" the global strategy…

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