{"id":14430,"date":"2017-08-14T13:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=14430"},"modified":"2018-08-22T18:40:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T18:40:39","slug":"short-funds-u-s-army-modernizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/business\/industry\/short-funds-u-s-army-modernizing\/","title":{"rendered":"Short funds for the U.S. Army on modernizing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The U.S. Army budget for 2017 preferred readiness over modernization.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Preparing units was more important for the U.S. Army that modernizing forces.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Army.mil<\/p><\/div>\n

According to the Center for Strategic and International Studies<\/a>, the U.S. forces are roughly 7-to-9 billion dollars short on the funds needs to modernize the force.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, military forces said they were sorting out the \u201cbest-possible balance within their topline funding level\u201d.<\/p>\n

However, the first six months of 2017 proved a primary spending on readiness, as 23 billion dollars were invested for Overseas Contingency Operations, 2 billion more than 2016.<\/p>\n

All the while base budgets for 2017 decreased 2 billion dollars less than 2016.<\/p>\n

Concerns for army officials<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Staff General Mark Milley addressed Congress in April 2016<\/a> saying that U.S. forces have become \u201coutranged and outgunned by many potential adversaries, particularly by the Russian counterparts.<\/p>\n

The urge to begin funding efforts to update existing platforms and systems has been mentioned on a various amount of times, even by Andrew Hunter<\/a>, who is director of the Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group at CSIS and head of the report.<\/p>\n

Hunter told the The Washington Free Beacon<\/a>:\u00a0“The Army has some critical needs to modernize because of the evolving threat, driven largely by Russia (…) This must be a priority.”<\/p>\n

Combat readiness has become more important than modernizing forces and their work tools, and it\u00b4s becoming a very controversial topic.<\/p>\n

Fast facts<\/strong><\/h6>\n