NR Daily: The Budget Deal Won’t Be Enough to Get the Armed Forces Trump Wants

I'm going to delve into the world of Pentagon budgets. It's an arcane world, and I avoid it whenever possible, but it's not possible to avoid it now — not if readers want to understand the magnitude of the challenge facing the Trump administration where the armed forces are concerned. First, some history is necessary. America's armed forces have been declining in size, strength, and technological capability relative to its adversaries' ever since the end of the Cold War. The active duty military is around 40–50 percent smaller than it was in the 1980s ...

February 13 2018

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