
With the Pentagon set to unveil its fiscal year 2015 budget request on March 4--having the benefits of knowing its topline and being able to avoid across-the-board cuts--analysts are trying to predict how the Defense Department will trim its budget to stay within the $520 billion cap. For Lawrence Korb, a former assistant secretary of defense and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, money equals policy and therefore the FY ’15 budget will reflect the Obama administration’s…