No-Fly Zone, No Problem
How to do it without putting a single coalition plane directly over Libyan territory.
How to do it without putting a single coalition plane directly over Libyan territory.
“There are all sorts of ripple effects on the programs,” said Todd Harrison, an analyst with CSBA.
The Defense Department is pressuring Congress for a spending increase in 2011. Defense leaders say a continuing resolution the House passed in mid-February doesn’t give them enough money. And they want DoD taken out of any year-long CR that Congress passes.
“With a lot of these efficiency initiatives, these are projected savings, this is what they’re estimating they’re going to save in the future. What quite often happens is that the savings don’t materialize like we expected,” said Todd Harrison, a longtime defense budget watcher at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
Todd Harrison, a senior fellow in defense budget studies at CSBA, called the proposed $5 per month bump in premiums for