Defense panel: 'Obama administration's defense strategy dangerously underfunded'

thisnumbersdisconnected · Aug 1, 2014

Fox News: Defense panel concludes Obama administration defense strategy ‘dangerously’ underfunded

The Obama administration’s four-year defense strategy lacks funding needed for fulfilling global military missions and the U.S. military faces “high risk” in the world unless changes are made, according to a bipartisan report by a congressionally backed panel of defense experts.

The report by the National Defense Panel, led by former Defense Secretary William Perry and retired Marine Corps Gen. John Abizaid, criticized the Pentagon’s Quadrennial Defense Review for outlining military responsibilities that cannot be met because of sharp defense funding cuts.

The report concluded that the capabilities called for in the QDR “clearly exceed the budget resources made available to the department.”

“This gap is disturbing if not dangerous in light of the fact that global threats and challenges are rising, including a troubling pattern of territorial assertiveness and regional intimidation on China’s part, [and] the recent aggression of Russia in Ukraine.”
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Pretty much what I've been saying for weeks. Somebody else thinks so too.

Question is, what can be done about it? With his "pen and phone" dictatorship, Obama will do whatever he wants, including potentially redirecting funds elsewhere that might be designated by a Republican-dominated 114th Congress for defense.

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