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Military Forces in FY 2021: The Budget and Strategy Overview: Four Challenges and a Wild Card

Defense Outlook Series

CSIS Senior Adviser Mark Cancian annually produces a series of papers on U.S. military forces, including composition, new initiatives, long-term trends, and challenges. The first white paper in this year’s series analyzes the strategy and budget context for building forces in FY 2021, criticisms of the strategy, budget and resulting force plans, and risks for sustaining force levels in the future.

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Mark Cancian, "Military Forces in FY 2021: The Budget and Strategy Overview: Four Challenges and a Wild Card," Center for Strategic and International Studies, October 20, 2020, last modified October 20, 2020, https://defense360.csis.org/military-forces-in-fy-2021-the-budget-and-strategy-overview-four-challenges-and-a-wild-card/.