Rapid Fire July 11, 2013: Pentagon Sequestration Contingency Planning Lacks Specificity

• US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel sent a letter [PDF] to the Senate Armed Services Committee’s leadership outlining the consequences of keeping sequestration in place next year, though the Pentagon has yet to produce anything granular enough to express more than very generic trade-offs. This “contingency plan”, such as it is, oddly starts with military personnel accounts, which so far have been exempted [PDF] by the President from the effects of the Budget Control Act.