What’s The Plan For The Pentagon?

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower famously said that “plans are nothing, planning is everything.” He knew the process of planning was key and in the decades since, the Pentagon has excelled at nothing so much as planning for every conceivable – and sometimes inconceivable – contingency. So it’s more than a little surprising that a range of Defense Department and military officials say that there is no additional planning under way on how the Pentagon budget could or should be trimmed further in the face of potential across the board cuts.