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…“I don’t see the appetite for major axing or a deep cut,” said Katherine Blakeley, a research fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. Rather, the service will adopt a “shave, shave, shave, salami slicing” approach, she predicted.
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.
President Obama’s last budget, to be released February 9th, is his last chance to put his administration’s stamp on the nation’s defense spending.
