Services' roles debated DOD Leaders Plan Major Meeting To Discuss Cutting $400 Billion

摘要

Top Pentagon officials and military leaders are scheduled to hold a major meeting next week to lay the groundwork for reviewing military roles and missions and cutting security spending by hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade. The final "large group" meeting on Defense Secretary Robert Gates' watch ~ which comes two months after President Obama called for cutting security spending by $400 billion by fiscal year 2023 to reduce the federal deficit --will involve Pentagon policymakers, combatant commanders and senior leaders from all the armed services, sources said.