Washington must supply the Pentagon with real budgetary growth to enable reforms that come at a cost upfront but produce long-term savings and efficiencies.
Constrained defense budgets complicate the military’s choices, often requiring it to modify or abandon strategic initiatives, reforms, and crucial modernization expenditures.
The US military’s inability to address critical modernization and force-planning challenges has left it in decline relative to its competitors, shifting the global military balance against the United States.