Army Budget To ‘Meet Readiness’ From Asymmetric Threats

By Tactical-Life

The following is a release from David Vergun and the U.S. Army:

“The Army must produce units ready today to win decisively … against an aggressive Russia or its surrogates,” said Acting Secretary of the Army Patrick Murphy.

Murphy and Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. Mark A. Milley testified, March 3, at a House Committee on Appropriations, Defense subcommittee hearing about the proposed fiscal year 2017 Army Budget.

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Russian military modernization began in earnest around 2004, after they observed how quickly the army of Iraq was defeated in 2003 by the U.S. and coalition, Milley said. “They went to school, focusing on our capabilities. They developed new doctrine, modernized and their military is now much more capable than it has been since the fall of the Berlin Wall.”

ASYMMETRIC THREATS

Milley added that threats the Army must prepare for are not just from Russia and an increasingly assertive China, but also from a provocative North Korea and terrorist groups throughout large swaths of the Middle East and Africa.

Both leaders said the fiscal year 2017 Army budget of $125.1 billion focuses on building readiness to defeat those threats as well as …Read the Rest

Source:: Tactical Life