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“They’re using that money largely to preserve force structure," said Katherine Blakeley, a research fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. "So that’s the number of people in the Army, the number of people in the Marines -- to avoid having to make deeper cuts.”
As the last budget request of the Obama Administration, the FY 2017 request largely continues the shift towards greater investment in the high-end capabilities necessary in a new strategic era that holds the potential for great power competition.
