Jared Serbu, DoD Reporter, Federal News Radio

The Pentagon has been warning for years that the decade-long budget caps Congress set in place four years ago won't work -- at least if DoD hopes to execute the...

The Pentagon has been warning for years that the decade-long budget caps Congress set in place four years ago won’t work — at least if DoD hopes to execute the defense strategy that’s on the books right now. With sequestration set to return this year, officials say they’ll try to make things a bit less abstract. The Pentagon publishes a report that details exactly what would happen to individual bases and weapons systems with a $30 billion cut. Federal News Radio DoD Reporter Jared Serbu writes about DoD’s sequestration messaging strategy as part of this week’s edition of Inside the Reporter’s Notebook.

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