Defense leaders warned for months of a national security disaster if the bipartisan congressional "supercommittee" failed to make a deal on reducing the federal deficit by $1.2 trillion over the next decade.The supercommittee failed. So now what?The answer seems to be either catastrophic or merely very bad, depending on what Congress as a whole does now. Most likely are major program terminations and cancellations, reduction of force structure, involuntary separation of tens of thousands of troops, overseas base closures, deferral of badly needed modernization, and foregoing reset of wartime equipment losses. And that could just be for starters.
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