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“$18.5 billion just doesn’t go that far, particularly if you are going to take real action to address some of the force structure and readiness issues that we’ve been struggling with for the past several years,” Katherine Blakeley, a research fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, said. “You can burn though $18.5 billion, which I don’t think we’re necessarily going to get, very rapidly.”
The battle lines over defense spending in the Trump Administration are already being drawn. Senator McCain has staked out a broad vision of restored readiness, targeted investments in advanced capabilities, and thoughtful growth in military capacity. In this budget brief, CSBA Research Fellow Katherine Blakeley lays out the details of Senator McCain’s proposed defense investments with accompanying interactive visualizations.
