Following years of constrained budgets and heavy operational demands, the services have a long road back to full-spectrum readiness, according to the director of force structure, resources and assessment for the Joint Staff. During a Tuesday budget briefing for reporters, Army Lt. Gen. Anthony Ierardi emphasized that the question of a return to full readiness is "not linear," and will involve a combination of funding, time and availability of units for training. "Some of the deployments that our units have,...
