The lion's share of the proposed $5.8 billion fiscal year 2017 budget amendment sent to Congress Nov. 10 to increase Pentagon spending for the wars in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq would be directed to operations and maintenance accounts while $530 million is requested for a handful of procurement and research and development projects. The amended budget request would raise the Obama administration's FY-17 Overseas Contingency Operations proposal to $64.4 billion and includes $2.5 billion to maintain 8,400 troops in Afghanistan...
