Photo: U.S. President Barack Obama meets with General Ray Odierno after stepping off Air Force One at Baghdad International Airport in Baghdad, April 7, 2009. (Reuters)Army Chief Of Staff: Budget Cuts ‘Greatest Threat’ To National Security -- Washington Times
The Army’s chief of staff said Friday that looming budget cuts pose the greatest threat to U.S. security.
“The Army has been in a state of continuous war for nearly 12 years, the longest in our nation’s history,” said Gen. Raymond T. Odierno while speaking at the Brookings Institution in Washington. “But today, in my opinion, the greatest threat to our national security is the fiscal uncertainty resulting from the lack of predictability in the budget cycle.”
Gen. Ordierno told the audience at the liberal-leaning think tank that the impact of hundreds of billions of dollars of cuts to military spending, enacted in 2010 under then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates, is beginning to show in quantifiable terms.
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