It is true that programs are going to be hunting for dollars. And it is true there are more programs than dollars. But the civilian leaders are doing nothing to bring the budget in line. Even though we are hearing a lot of rhetoric from the office of the Defense secretary, we see they are going along with what the services want. It shows who is running the Pentagon.
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That sounds like they're saying we'll save money because we're not at war. There's no justification in the report, so no way for me to check and see if this is as stupid as it sounds. They used it to cut accounts that provided training and rapid equipment acquisition by the Army, among other things.
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We don't know if the operational tempo is going to go up, down, or stay the same. We don't know what the number will be or what the direction of the trend will be.
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If it's beyond the next election cycle, we'll worry about it next year after we get ourselves elected.
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