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ASP Weighs in on Quadrennial Roles and Missions Review Report
posted by Louis McCoy on February 2, 2009 at 5:30 pm
From today’s Congressional Quarterly: while the Obama Administration has set the limit at $527 billion excluding war costs, some congressional conservatives are “already trying to portray the OMB (Office of Management and Budget) number as a cut by comparing it to a $584 billion draft fiscal 2010 budget request compiled last fall by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.”
ASP Senior Fellow Bernard Finel discusses this dynamic in a recent Defense News Op-Ed. He specifically warns that such politics can only lead to two outcomes: “either the incoming administration will assert itself and as a result cause tremendous tension with the services, or it will roll over and cause irreparable harm to the concept of civilian control over the military.”
Read the Congressional Quarterly article here.
Read Dr. Bernard Finel’s Op-Ed piece from Defense News here.
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