More Missions, Fewer Resources: Biden Revives a Failed Defense Recipe
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By Frederico Bartels
March 23, 2021
As the Biden administration settles in, it is becoming more apparent that their plan for defense is to revive the Obama era’s tried-and-failed strategy of “doing more with less.â€
Under the Obama administration, the Defense Department experienced real budgetary decreases for five consecutive years. Those cuts took place while fighting the Islamic State and making fruitless investments in green fuels. The result was that, by 2017, the Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, Gen. Daniel Allyn testified the Army was “out-ranged, outgunned and outdated.†Indeed, every military service was suffering well-documented readiness problems.
Now President Biden seems to be picking up the same playbook of more missions and less money that left our troops in such precarious circumstances.
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