Congress and the White House face a host of fiscal challenges and decisions over the course of 2025—including the debt ceiling, appropriations for both FY 2025 and FY 2026, and tax cuts—that will impact U.S. defense spending.
Achieving the DoD’s audit milestones will not be an easy task, but with the right focus, willingness to think differently about outdated policies, and commitment to funding the improvements needed to systems and data, policymakers may reach the objective.
As the services now face an unprecedented recruitment crisis, there’s a temptation to rely on traditional, seemingly time-tested solutions to help the services meet recruitment targets. But relying on such traditional approaches is an insufficient and ineffective means of addressing the current challenge.
D360’s Bad Ideas in National Security series features short articles from CSIS and outside scholars on recently considered and not too obvious bad ideas in the defense and foreign policy space.
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