As the super committee failed to find agreement on how to reduce deficits over the next 10 years, automatic cuts will be triggered for defense and some domestic spending in 2013. How much would be cut for defense – even after almost half a billion dollars were already cut earlier this year? What would another $600 billion in cuts mean? Why could it threaten a return to the draft? What would it mean in numbers of troops, ships and planes? And what can be done to prevent our national security from being the greatest casualty of excessive spending and political gridlock? We ask retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Bob Maginnis, who is now a senior strategist for the U.S. Army.
