Allocating a greater share of its budget to personnel than the other military services might lessen the blow that rapid inflation deals to the Army's bottom line this year, according to a researcher at the Institute for Defense Analyses. “The Army has a larger proportion of its total costs in personnel, and so that gives them a little bit of a cushion in terms of topline,” David Tate, who has studied the effects of inflation on Pentagon budgets, told Inside...
