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A new Heritage Foundation report credits Army leaders for taking a bold step by creating the U.S. Army Futures Command, calling it a “distinct break from the past” that “seeks to blur the normally bright line between requirements and acquisition” by creating “greater unity” to close critical capability gaps.
Secretary of the Army Mark T. Esper says the Army faces many challenges based on an increasingly uncertain future but it also has a major asset: public trust.
A conservative think tank is urging an increase in the size of the Army to 520,000 active-duty soldiers by 2023, beginning with an additional 9,000-person increase in fiscal 2019.
For the third consecutive year, the conservative Heritage Foundation ranks the U.S. Army as “weak.”
March 30, 2017
A new federal budget report from a conservative think tank strongly advocates making defense spending the nation’s top priority, but it still finds places to cut that would be widely felt by the Army.