i've put together along with a colleague of mine, kim wincup of the defense drawdown working group and had a big debate, what is the difference between strategy and strategic guidance? the 5 january strategic guidance, it's really emanating from the 2010 strategy but that was dispelled right away because pa net ta and general dempsey referred to it as a new strategy even though it's a strategictru to the precise priorities within it, but if we had had any doubt whether or not it was a new strategy, it is a newwe the seq $600 billion or maybe $575 billion depending on how you estimate it. will that mean we have another new strategy? enifill he said sequestering is like "taking a chainsaw to the budget and out of that you take a new strategy." i'm actually a strategist and i hadn't realized our strategies were so vulnerable to relatively modest changes in the resource level because we've been told right now, well the first strategy couldn't withstand a % dec decrament. i think our strategies need to be a little bit more robust than that and maybe we should be as todd has said looking fur