Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey wants Congress to know the Defense Department will require more base budget funding in fiscal year 2016 than the $535 billion it has planned, especially since that amount is already $35 billion above the spending caps mandated by sequestration. Dempsey also predicted the current campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant would last between three and four years. “We need additional topline for the emerging and new requirements,” he said Wednesday...
