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Breaking Defense: CSIS Expert Calls Out USAF: 386 Squadrons & $13B Space Force Are Guesswork
CENTER FOR STRATEGIC & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: The Air Force threw out two big numbers this week, but one of Washington’s leading budget analysts doesn’t think either of them is credible.
One is the service’s unsolicited estimate that President Trump’s plan to create an independent Space Force – largely carved out of the Air Force – would cost $13 billion over five years. CSIS scholar Todd Harrison says that’s a crudely inflated figure, probably intended to undermine the Space Force proposal by scaring off potential supporters. While Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson has called the $13 billon figure “conservative,” Harrison told reporters this afternoon that: “this is not a conservative estimate….This is the highest estimate I think you could possibly come up with.”
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WNU Editor: The Pentagon unfortunately has a long history of not being credible when it comes to procurement and budgets.
2 comments:
Oh my god, come on. Who on earth knows what a "space force" will end up costing??? Jeeez
We should be very surprised if they add up.
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