The Army is refining its estimates for fiscal year 2008 war spending needs to pay for things not factored into the proposal submitted to Congress in February, including additional troops in Iraq and thousands of new Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, according to a senior service official. Gen. Richard Cody, the Army vice chief of staff, declined today to offer specifics on how the $83.4 billion FY-08 Global War on Terror (GWOT) supplemental spending request will be modified. "The FY-08...
