The Pentagon’s Budget Can’t Fund America’s Global Commitments
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By Matilda Steward, Brendan Thomas-Noone & Ashley Townshend
August 29, 2019
The United States is facing a serious crisis of strategic insolvency in which the ends of its expansive strategy for building the liberal order outstrip the budgetary and military means at Washington’s disposal. Without hard choices by America’s political elite to spend more on defence or scale back the country’s global commitments, the Pentagon will continue to be left with insufficient resources to single-handedly maintain a favourable balance of power in the Indo-Pacific.
This is one of the headline judgements of our recent United States Studies Centre report, Averting crisis: American strategy, military spending and collective defence in the Indo-Pacific. These concerns also lie behind the Trump administration’s 2018 national defence strategy, which sounded a clarion call for prioritising great-power competition and rebuilding America’s atrophying military edge.
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