Dunford says the need for military readiness isn’t over

Federal News Network: The Defense Department spent the last three years building its readiness with increased budgets, but the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says the military will need several more years on the same monetary path to stay ahead of near peer adversaries like China and Russia.

“We’ve looked at where we are today and where we need to be to maintain an acceptable competitive edge in 2020 and we have done the math to justify a 3% to 5% real growth over inflation to meet both the capability and capacity requirements,” Gen. Joseph Dunford said Wednesday at the Brookings Institution in Washington.

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