The BCA's devastating budget cuts have allowed our military's capabilities to atrophy, our force size to shrink, and as a result we are assuming too much risk in our military preparedness to fight and win against near-peer and peer competitors.
Mike Turner: “The BCA's devastating budget cuts have allowed our military's capabilities to atrophy, our force size to shrink, and as…”
On the recordMarch 1, 2017
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Highlights the negative impact of budget cuts on military readiness.
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