Projected defense budget cuts of $1 trillion during the next decade are “too fast, too much, too abrupt, and too irresponsible,” said Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel this week at the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Global Security Forum. Nevertheless, “we do not have the option of ignoring reality or assuming something will change.”
“So let us today drudge on about our inescapably impossible task of providing every week a first rough draft of history that will never be completed about a world we can never really understand.”
Philip Graham,
Former President & Publisher
The Washington Post