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America’s Next Army

November 15, 2016 National Interest
By: Paul Scharre
Related Experts: Mark Gunzinger, Jacob Cohn, Timothy A. Walton, Ryan Boone

Last month, I participated with my colleagues Jerry Hendrix and Elbridge Colby in a strategic choices exercise hosted by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments where we built an alternative 10-year budget for the Department of Defense. We assumed up front that a new Administration was able to achieve a budget deal with Congress that resulted in stable funding, a prerequisite for getting the Department of Defense back on its feet, but assumed only modest budget growth.