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Dunford: Unstable Funding Risks Military’s Power Projection

Friday, June 23rd, 2017

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Without stable, predictable funding the United States military risks losing its ability to project power overseas and meet commitments to allies in other parts of the world, both of which are potent deterrents to catastrophic war, according to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford.“As a result of unstable budgets and operational tempo, while we have been focused on violent extremism, while we have delayed modernization programs from the nuclear enterprise to our shipbuilding program, our potential adversaries…

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