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(From Army Magazine)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For six straight years, the Obama Administration has kept Pentagon spending under control by slashing outlays for military technology.\u00a0 Army modernization has been hit especially hard.\u00a0 In fact, the conclusion to the Army&#8217;s fiscal 2016 budget briefing states flatly that, &#8220;the Army has no major new modernization programs until the next decade.&#8221;\u00a0 However, there&#8217;s a chance\u00a0the service\u00a0won&#8217;t be able to fund a robust modernization program even then, because current U.S. military strategy puts much more emphasis on air power and sea power than it does on ground combat.\u00a0 The Army faces the danger that rather than rebuilding its arsenal of cutting-edge technologies in the next decade, it may end up being a bill-payer for new bombers and warships.\u00a0 I have written a cover story for Army Magazine <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.armymagazine.org\/2015\/08\/17\/insider-threat\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For six straight years, the Obama Administration has kept Pentagon spending under control by slashing outlays for military technology.\u00a0 Army modernization has been hit especially hard.\u00a0 In fact, the conclusion to the Army&#8217;s fiscal 2016 budget briefing states flatly that, &#8220;the Army has no major new modernization programs until the next decade.&#8221;\u00a0 However, there&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Will The Army Be A Bill-Payer For Air Force And Navy Modernization? 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