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...“It’s kind of like a kid’s Christmas list, in that we want some more manpower in the Army, we want more helicopters, more planes, more this and more that,” said Katherine Blakeley, a defense analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. “I don’t think that they have a strong idea of how they’re going to get this, given that the BCA is still in effect.”
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.
The Cost of U.S. Nuclear Forces provides an accounting of what U.S. nuclear forces cost and how much could potentially be saved by cutting those forces.
