If you exclude the OCO [Overseas Contingency Operations] accounts, the overseas accounts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and you look at real dollar defense budgets, the defense budget is 40 percent higher than it was in 2001 in real dollars.
Andrews highlights the increase in defense budget since 2001, excluding certain accounts.
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