Under sequestration, DoD will have to cut its previously planned spending by more than $500 billion over the next ten years. The approach is painful, across the board and haphazard — military leaders have warned it will cause a crisis in readiness. But there’s no shortage of ideas on how to trim defense spending without drastically harming military capability. Washington is awash in the cost-cutting recommendations of boards and commissions, most of which have gone ignored by Congress. And a new review of those ideas by the Stimson Center says altogether, they could save about a trillion dollars if they were implemented. Russell Rumbaugh the director of Stimson’s budgeting for foreign affairs program and a coauthor of that new report, joins In Depth with his take on DoD cost cutting.