Going Hollow: The Hagel Preview of the FY2015 Defense Budget by Anthony Cordesman, Center for Strategic and International Studies
It does not take much vision to predict that Secretary Hagel and the Obama Administration’s FY2015 defense budget submissions are going to be the subject of bitter partisan criticism. It is an election year and virtually everything in Washington is already the subject of bitter partisan criticism. Playing the national security card is a perennial aspect of U.S. politics, as is playing it to court veterans, National Guard supporters, defense manufacturers, and the more doctrinaire conservatives.
The problem is that simply focusing on total spending levels does not address the critical problems in shaping our future defense posture and is not particularly relevant. Secretary Hagel’s focus on spending more than the Sequestration level in his February 24th speech announcing the FY2015 defense budget dodges around fundamental problems in the way we plan defense spending, but does any Republican focus on spending more without focusing on realistic costs or setting any meaningful goals for the future? …
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"The problem is that simply focusing on total spending levels does not address the critical problems in shaping our future defense posture and is not particularly relevant."
Very true, when you do the analysis of our future defense posture you find that the military is still too big for what they are being expected to deal with.