The Army's latest budget request appears to underfund technology critical to future battlefield success.
The centerpiece of Army plans is replacement of aging aircraft, artillery, vehicles and networks with a new generation of digitally-designed kit.
It is also well below the $14.2 billion spent on R&D in 2021, and that’s before factoring in the loss of buying power associated with rising inflation since President Biden took office. However, that isn’t looking likely in an overall Army budget that is steadily losing ground from the Trump years in after-inflation terms.
Unfortunately, maintaining a high state of readiness tends to wear out equipment already in the force, which makes the need for new weapons even greater. Indeed, Army active and reserve-component personnel represent nearly half of all the uniformed personnel in the armed forces . The relative neglect of Army programs might make sense if China were the only near-peer threat the nation was facing, but Ukraine demonstrates that is not the case.
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