{"id":13053,"date":"2016-12-22T14:58:19","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T19:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lexingtoninstitute.org\/?p=13053"},"modified":"2016-12-22T14:58:19","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T19:58:19","slug":"president-trump-needs-five-year-defense-plan-day-one-forbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lexingtoninstitute.org\/president-trump-needs-five-year-defense-plan-day-one-forbes\/","title":{"rendered":"Why President Trump Needs A Five-Year Defense Plan On Day One (From Forbes)"},"content":{"rendered":"
President-elect Donald Trump’s goals for revitalizing U.S. military capabilities are similar to those that president-elect Ronald Reagan espoused in 1981.\u00a0 One lesson to be learned from Reagan’s success in rebuilding a hollow military is that it’s important to have a long-term plan laying out administration defense objectives.\u00a0 That’s what defense secretary Caspar Weinberger provided in his first annual report, setting forth a plan for increasing the buying power of the defense budget by 48% between 1982 and 1987.\u00a0 President Trump will need a similar plan that sets goals and identifies program priorities to prevent his defense agenda from being captured by protectors of the status quo.\u00a0 I have written a piece for Forbes explaining the importance of formulating a five-year defense plan at the outset of the new administration that can be read here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President-elect Donald Trump’s goals for revitalizing U.S. military capabilities are similar to those that president-elect Ronald Reagan espoused in 1981.\u00a0 One lesson to be learned from Reagan’s success in rebuilding a hollow military is that it’s important to have a long-term plan laying out administration defense objectives.\u00a0 That’s what defense secretary Caspar Weinberger provided in […]<\/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":"\n