The budget-gutting policies of “sequestration” — an across-the-board cut of a $55 billion a year for 10 years to our defense budget — pose a serious threat to our national security. They represent a haphazard and thoughtless approach to cutting the national budget that was designed to force action, not to be actual policy. These cuts come at a time when increasingly complex and dangerous global threats are on the rise and our ability to respond to them is already being diminished.