The Pentagon is requesting $686.1 billion for fiscal year 2019 — $597.1 billion for its base budget, and $89 billion for its war-funding budget some of which will pay for base budget requirements.
The budget request is based on the National Defense Strategy released by the Pentagon earlier this year, that focuses on China and Russia as strategic competitors.
“Today the United States is emerging from a period of strategic atrophy in which the Department’s competitive military advantage has been eroding,” a Pentagon budget overview said.
“The United States is facing increased global disorder, characterized by decline in the long-standing rules-based international order — creating a security environment more complex and volatile than any the United States has experienced in recent memory. Major power competition, not terrorism, is now the primary concern in U.S. national security.”
The budget request calls for a 2.6 percent pay raise for service members — the largest in nine years.
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4 comments:
How about they find the hundreds of millions of dollars unaccounted for and use that? How about the millions spent on natural gas stations in AFG?
That happened while we had a muslim president, 4:01. They were throwing money around in Afghanistan and Iraq like crazy, giving it to tribal chiefs and the like. Funding their muslim buddies.
I'm sure they would say it went to a good cause.
Any credibility your argument has is lost when you try to say Obummer was Muslim or didn't have a birth certificate. Try again
Over due > Triple it , & Triple Social Security too !!!
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