Saturday, October 26, 2013

The Budgets Of The U.S. Military Services Are Not Split Evenly

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Military Services Don’t Receive Equal Slices of Budget Pie -- Intercepts/Defense News

If you deal with defense spending, you’ve probably had someone tell you that the budgets of the military services are roughly split evenly. Well it’s not true.

Todd Harrison, an analyst with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, busted that often repeated myth Thursday when presenting his latest report called: “Chaos and Uncertainty: The FY 14 Defense Budget and Beyond.”

“The services have never gotten equal shares of the budget,” Harrison said. “Never! It’s the myth! Never happened!”

Turns out, the services “don’t even get stable shares of the budget,” and Harrison has the data to prove it (see the chart above).

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My Comment: Looking at the above graph .... the Army's budget has been eviscerated.

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