Army To Sacrifice GCV To Stave Off ‘Creeping Hollowness’ by Sydney Freedberg, Breaking Defense.
“It’s not his call,” the Army general said.
The general was the Army’s director of strategy, plans, and policy, Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Snow. “He” is the Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. James Winnefeld, Snow’s superior by two stars and about three layers of bureaucracy. And “it”? “It” is all about how big the Army needs to be.
All the services are being squeezed by the sequester, as the ongoing automatic budget cuts are known. But none is under more intense assault from both inside and outside the Pentagon than the Army. And the Army - from Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno on down– is starting to very publicly fight back…