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Repair and Rebuild: Balancing New Military Spending for a Three-Theater Strategy

By Mackenzie Eaglen ● American Enterprise Institute ● 10/16/2017

The Pentagon must resolve near-term readiness issues, expand its force structure, and invest in technological breakthroughs to sustain simultaneous operations across three theaters.
The Army must be large enough to support stability operations in the Middle East and lethal enough to win decisively in any conventional conflicts in Europe and Asia.
Over the next five years, AEI’s plan would spend $672 billion above the Budget Control Act caps.