{"id":30221,"date":"2018-01-26T15:27:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T20:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30221"},"modified":"2018-01-26T15:27:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T20:27:23","slug":"trump-ups-defense-budget-by-13-cant-have-worlds-best-military-on-an-obama-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30221","title":{"rendered":"Trump Ups Defense Budget By 13% – “Can’t Have World’s Best Military On An Obama Budget”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Trump Ups Defense Budget By 13% – “Can’t Have World’s Best Military On An Obama Budget”<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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With Washington having seemingly turned its turret away from ‘terror’ and back to “revisionist, authoritarian” regimes like ‘Russia and China’,<\/a> the Military-Industrial Complex is ‘gonna need a bigger budget’ – a 13% bigger $716 billion one by 2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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US military spending already dwarfed the rest of the world…<\/p>\n

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But, while presenting the 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS2018) of the United States on Friday at the Johns Hopkins University, Secretary of Defense James Mattis painted a picture of a dangerous world in which U.S. power \u2013 and all of the supposed \u201cgood\u201d that it does around the world \u2013 is on the decline.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOur competitive edge has eroded in every domain of warfare \u2013 air, land, sea, space, and cyberspace,\u201d <\/strong>he said<\/a>. \u201cAnd it is continually eroding.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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And now, as The Washington Post reports<\/a>, President Trump is expected to ask for $716 billion in defense spending when he unveils his 2019 budget next month, a major increase that signals a shift away from concerns about rising deficits,<\/strong> U.S. officials said.<\/p>\n

The proposed budget is a victory for Defense Secretary Jim Mattis,<\/strong><\/u> who recently unveiled a strategy that proposes retooling the military to deter and, if necessary, fight a potential conflict with major powers such as China and Russia.<\/p>\n

And it represents a setback for deficit hawks such as Mick Mulvaney,<\/strong><\/u> director of the Office of Management and Budget, who last year pressed for an increase in defense spending that could be offset by cuts to domestic programs.<\/p>\n

The $716 billion figure for 2019 would cover the Pentagon\u2019s annual budget as well as spending on ongoing wars and the maintenance of the U.S. nuclear arsenal. It would increase Pentagon spending by more than 7 percent over the 2018 budget, which still has not passed through Congress.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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