{"id":13269,"date":"2017-03-01T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lexingtoninstitute.org\/?p=13269"},"modified":"2017-03-01T09:00:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T14:00:40","slug":"2-things-donald-trumps-big-league-military-build-must-include-national-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lexingtoninstitute.org\/2-things-donald-trumps-big-league-military-build-must-include-national-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Things Donald Trump&#8217;s \u2018Big League\u2019 Military Build-Up Must Include (from The National  Interest)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump will propose adding $54 billion to the FY2018 defense budget. \u00a0Much of this is likely to be spent on improved readiness. Years of underfunding, downsizing and overuse have left the U.S. military in a state of profound unreadiness. The Army is in greater need of additional funding for readiness. However, if the Army receives additional resources in FY2017 and 2018, it must resist the impulse to spend it all on additional end strength and the traditional measures of readiness \u2013 training, spare parts and maintenance. The Army has been forced to shortchange modernization in order to avoid a readiness collapse. \u00a0Near-term modernization must be part of the answer to the readiness challenge. I have written about sensible Army modernization <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/blog\/the-buzz\/enhancing-readiness-why-the-us-army-must-modernization-now-19617\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump will propose adding $54 billion to the FY2018 defense budget. \u00a0Much of this is likely to be spent on improved readiness. Years of underfunding, downsizing and overuse have left the U.S. military in a state of profound unreadiness. The Army is in greater need of additional funding for readiness. However, if the Army [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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>2 Things Donald Trump&#039;s \u2018Big League\u2019 Military Build-Up Must Include (from The National Interest) - Lexington Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtoninstitute.org\/2-things-donald-trumps-big-league-military-build-must-include-national-interest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2 Things Donald Trump&#039;s \u2018Big League\u2019 Military Build-Up Must Include (from The National Interest) - Lexington Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Trump will propose adding $54 billion to the FY2018 defense budget. \u00a0Much of this is likely to be spent on improved readiness. 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