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Restraint in Short Supply in the Pentagon Budget


Last Thurssday, the Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and the Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair General Joseph Dunford testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC). The topic? The President’s defense budget request for next year.
The nearly three-hour hearing covered everything from the fight against ISIS in Syria to NASA’s research and development projects. But what was remarkable, other than senators using valuable time with Secretary Carter to broker pet projects, was the evident reevaluation of threats to the U.S.
As Secretary Carter stated in his opening remarks,
Today’s security environment is dramatically different than the last 25 years, requiring new ways …read more

Source: The American Conservative

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