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Pentagon

Trump’s Military Buildup Won’t Be Easy To Achieve, Experts Say

By Marc Selinger

Tuesday, February 21st, 2017

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Trump’s Military Buildup Won’t Be Easy To Achieve, Experts Say

Maintenance staff inspect one of the 10 Luke AFB F-35s sent to Nellis AFB for a training deployment, April 15, 2015. Photo: U.S. Air Force.

The Pentagon will face several significant challenges in the coming months as it tries to meet the Trump administration’s goal of strengthening the military without breaking the bank, a panel of defense experts said Feb. 21.Michael O’Hanlon, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, noted that while President Trump pledged during his campaign to end across-the-board federal budget cuts known as sequestration, temporary measures to give the Department of Defense relief from those cuts will soon end. As a result, sequestration,…

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