{"id":1668,"date":"2013-06-06T12:53:45","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T18:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2013-06-06T12:53:45","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T18:53:45","slug":"pentagon-planning-for-defense-cuts-made-worse-by-beltway-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/pentagon-planning-for-defense-cuts-made-worse-by-beltway-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon planning for defense cuts made worse by Beltway politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Kristina Wong<\/a>,\u00a0The Washington Times
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Automatic defense budget cuts for fiscal year 2013 will be over on November 1st, Deputy Defense Secretary\u00a0Ashton Carter<\/a>\u00a0said Wednesday, but added that \u201cno one knows what comes next here in Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the coming weeks, defense officials will be examining how the\u00a0Pentagon<\/a>\u00a0can manage through fiscal year 2014 if the defense budget is held to levels other than the president\u2019s proposed 2014 budget, and brief the results to the\u00a0Senate Armed Services Committee<\/a>\u00a0on July 1st,\u00a0Mr. Carter<\/a>\u00a0said at a\u00a0conference<\/a>\u00a0in Washington.<\/p>\n

With defense cuts of $500 billion over the next decade still in force under the Budget Control Act,\u00a0Mr. Carter<\/a>\u00a0said the department was planning for several contingencies under its \u201cstrategic choices and\u00a0management<\/a>\u00a0review,\u201d which Defense Secretary\u00a0Chuck Hagel<\/a>\u00a0will be internally briefed on within the next week.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Pentagon<\/a>\u00a0will use the results of the review to formulate budgets at several levels for fiscal year 2015 and beyond,\u00a0Mr. Carter<\/a>\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

The first level would be at the president\u2019s proposal for fiscal year 2014, which defense officials \u201cbelieve is the right level to meet today\u2019s complex national security threats and to\u00a0achieve<\/a>\u00a0further reductions in defense spending totaling $150 billion over 10 years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the responsible way to cut, because the cuts would ramp up over those 10 years, giving us time to plan and adjust,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The second level would be at the \u201cworst\u00a0case<\/a>\u00a0scenario\u201d under full sequestration, where $52 billion would be cut from the budget next year, and a total of $500 billion over the next 10 years, he said.<\/p>\n

A third level would be between the president\u2019s budget and full sequestration, he said.<\/p>\n

He called the effects of the automatic defense budget cuts so far in 2013 \u201cnot only regrettable and embarrassing, but disruptive,\u201d citing grounded\u00a0Air Force<\/a>\u00a0squadrons, canceled Army training exercises, and furloughed civilian workers.<\/p>\n

\u201cPerhaps the most concerning is that sequestration is painting an uncertain picture of the United States in the eyes of\u00a0friends<\/a>\u00a0and foes alike that could be dangerously out of proportion,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Kristina Wong,\u00a0The Washington Times click here for original article Automatic defense budget cuts for fiscal year 2013 will be over on November 1st, Deputy Defense Secretary\u00a0Ashton Carter\u00a0said Wednesday, but added that \u201cno one knows what comes next here in Washington.\u201d In the coming weeks, defense officials will be examining how the\u00a0Pentagon\u00a0can manage through fiscal year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/3870.jpg?fit=325%2C293&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1670,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions\/1670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}