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Goodbye Sequestration, Hello Deficits: How the Budget Deal Sticks Our Children with the Bill

The new budget deal adds $1.6 trillion to the deficit over the next ten years, a bill the current generation has no intention of paying and which it happily sends to its children and grandchildren.

August 3, 2019 — Mark Cancian
Analysis / Budget, Reform, Strategy

Mark Esper is About to Put Every Pentagon Program Manager Through the Wringer

Esper will likely conduct a “night court” process for DoD, which means that every program will need to be justified in terms of the national defense strategy’s reorientation towards great power conflict.

July 24, 2019 — Mark Cancian
Analysis / Budget

To CR Or Not To CR – How Bad Would A Full Year CR Be?

The clock is ticking, and the Senate, where floor time is always at a premium, has only 35 days in session after July 4th before fiscal 2020 begins (August is mostly recess, unless the Senate decides to enjoy the swelter of a Washington summer).

July 11, 2019 — Mark Cancian
Analysis / Budget

How Would Sequestration Impact DoD in FY 2020?

Congress will likely pursue a budget agreement that raises the Budget Control Act spending limits from their original levels for FY 2020. If they fail, the Department of Defense faces sequestration for the first time since 2013.

May 15, 2019 — Seamus P. Daniels
Analysis / Budget

Masterpiece Theater: Missed Opportunities for Missile Defense in the 2020 Budget

The proposed FY 2020 budget for missile defense lacks the programmatic and budgetary muscle movements to contribute meaningfully to overall U.S. deterrence and defense goals.

March 29, 2019 — Tom Karako, Wes Rumbaugh
Analysis / Budget

2020 Budget: One Half Step Towards A Great Power Strategy

There is no question that Pentagon’s 2020 budget takes significant steps to move the department from a focus on regional conflicts and counter-insurgency to a focus on great power conflicts. But the four services clearly are struggling with this balance.

March 25, 2019 — Mark Cancian, sdaniels, via Breaking Defense
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Analysis / Acquisition, Budget, Forces

Penny Wise and Pound Foolish: The Navy’s Carrier Construction Strategy

The Navy had several viable approaches for adapting its carrier force to the new defense strategy. Instead, it opted to avoid a decision and will waste billions of dollars as a result. Funds for shipbuilding are too scarce to waste. It’s time to make a decision about carriers.

March 15, 2019 — Mark Cancian, sdaniels, via US Naval Institute
Opinion / Budget

The tragedy of Mick Mulvaney and the war budget

The Trump administration is not requesting that Congress raise the budget caps at all, either for defense or non-defense. Instead, the administration is asking Congress to use a loophole in the law to allow for higher defense spending without breaching the budget caps: overseas contingency operations (OCO) funding.

March 13, 2019 — Todd Harrison, Seamus P. Daniels, sdaniels, via The Hill
Analysis / Budget

DOD and Border Security—At What Price?

The Trump administration recently released its FY 2020 budget. In it, the administration proposes to continue DOD’s role in border security, a role that includes both construction and troop deployments.

March 13, 2019 — Mark Cancian, sdaniels, via CSIS
Opinion / Budget

The Pentagon’s 2020 Budget Could Be Collateral Damage In Trump’s Battles With Congress

The Fiscal Year 2020 budget that the Trump administration released Monday embroils the Department of Defense in many confrontations with the Congress. The DOD will be dragged into a series of political confrontations and may end up as collateral damage.

March 12, 2019 — Mark Cancian, sdaniels, via Forbes
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