This Is How The Huge Defense Budget Cuts Will Shape The US Military

Wednesday, Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Cartergave a talk to the American Enterprise Institute, the conservative think tank that develops an immense amount of defense policy in D.C. 

While he was there and speaking to a room full of defense insiders, wonks, academics and professionals, Carter opened up about the future of the Department of Defense, specifically what's getting the axe with recent budget cuts, which branches are getting slimmed, where the United States is concentrating its military power, and — the biggest question on everyone's mind — what the Department of Defense is going to do after we leave Afghanistan. 

Here are the biggest takeaways. 

• The Pentagon isn't even bothering to prepare for the upcoming defense cuts

Remember after the debt ceiling debacle last summer, when Congress enacted mandatory, across the board cuts in Defense because an agre...

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