Democrats concede there is a military "readiness crisis," but have intensified their opposition to GOP arguments that U.S. defense spending has been mismanaged by the Obama administration, according to an information paper circulated on Capitol Hill in advance of the conference committee meetings to negotiate the fiscal year 2017 defense authorization bill. "Data provided by the military services show a dramatic decrease in readiness for all the service branches starting in 2005 to 2007 and culminating in 2011, particularly for...
