Esper talks up 'Fourth Estate' budget review and beyond

By Tony Bertuca / August 28, 2019 at 3:45 PM
Defense Secretary Mark Esper today heralded a new internal budget review as a chance for the Pentagon to "make tough decisions" that better align resources with the National Defense Strategy, which calls for greater focus on China and Russia. "The department's central challenge is to balance current requirements with the needs of the future," he said during a Pentagon press conference. "Both require our time and resources and so to get this balance right we need to make tough decisions,"...

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