2025 Department of Defense Budget Request Disarms America
The press release for the Department of Defense 2025 Budget Request told one story, a story replete with lofty, aspirational goals expressed in the usual abstract text of DOD budget requests.
Reading the text, one would think the Arsenal of Democracy 2.0 was in high gear. On the other hand, the accompanying Comptroller submissions of the different Services (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Space Force) that are the official numbers from DOD told a very different story. The Service submissions do have a similar, flowery textual chapeau laid over the numbers that perhaps this time were serving as a second layer of distraction from the numbers.
The Comptroller numbers don’t lie, the topline number of the entire Department of Defense was flat,
