Analysts: Army avoided 'bloodletting' in FY-23 request

By Ethan Sterenfeld / March 30, 2022 at 3:20 PM
The Army's fiscal year 2023 budget request managed to avoid the "bloodletting" that had been predicted if the Biden administration wanted to concentrate funding on other services and build strength in the Indo-Pacific, analysts told Inside Defense this week. “If you’re in the Army leadership, you’re breathing a sigh of relief,” said John Ferrari, a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. “You’ve bought yourself another year in the budget games. Because this was supposed to be the...

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