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SECDEF Carter Gets Push Back From Service Leaders

By | on January 27, 2016 |

Sequestration has not been easy on the branches of the Armed Services. Tight budgets and conflicting goals can strain any leaderships abilities. When it becomes public it does not get any prettier. It is almost like it becomes an in-your-face event for political and military watchers. This article for Politico goes into the issue. 

Pentagon in open brawl over spending priorities

Secretary of Defense Ash Carter is facing an open revolt in his own ranks.

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As Written By Austin Wright for POLITICO:

A brawl has broken out at the top rungs of the Pentagon over how to prepare the military for long-term threats, in a rare public fight that pits leaders of the military branches against Defense Secretary Ash Carter.

Carter wants to use the Pentagon’s upcoming, approximately $580 billion budget request to solidify the Obama administration’s goals of investing in more advanced weapons such as next-generation fighters and submarines, and high-demand skills such as cyber warfare.

But he is butting heads with the Navy’s leadership and facing open skepticism from the man in line to be Army secretary, who have disagreed with their boss in recent days over key aspects of the administration’s plans. One admiral even mocked critics of a warship program that Carter is trying to scale back.

Carter is getting pushback from multiple quarters.

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