Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, along with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Defense Department Comptroller Robert Hale testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee’s defense subcommittee on the Defense Department’s fiscal year 2015 budget request in Washington, D.C., June 18, 2014. DOD photo by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Sean K. Harp
White House Submits $59 Billion War Budget -- DoD Buzz
The White House on Thursday sent Congress a proposed fiscal 2015 war budget that includes major cuts and a request for $500 million to train and equip moderate rebels in Syria’s civil war.
The $58.6 billion request for the Defense Department so-called Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) next year is $20.9 billion less than the $79.4 billion placeholder originally included in the budget, the White House’s Office of Management and Budget said.
In recent years, war budgets have generally been in the $80 billion range, down from the $187 billion in fiscal 2008 at the height of the Iraq war.
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Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- June 30, 2014
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