摘要:As this is being written, the se-quester is only days from happen-ing, and it will still be the law of theland even if another stopgap actionpostpones it again. There has beenplenty of news about the pending im-pact, particularly about that addressedby the Secretary of Defense, the Chair-man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and themilitary chiefs. The Army and Navyseem to have garnered the most newsmedia attention, having belatedly iden-tified some specifics of how the budgetcuts will be applied. They are the forcesfor which the reductions most seriouslyaffect the more immediate area su r-rounding the capital