{"id":165679,"date":"2025-01-23T10:27:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T15:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=165679"},"modified":"2025-01-23T10:27:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T15:27:05","slug":"deep-army-cuts-to-help-support-realigning-towards-indo-pacific-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=165679","title":{"rendered":"Deep Army cuts to help support realigning towards Indo-Pacific region"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Austin Dahmer and Alexander Velez-Green are among Donald Trump’s defense advisors. Both are hawkish when it comes to dealing with China. Dahmer previously generated a report on how to help accomplish the Indo-Pacific strategy. He proposed $70 billion less for the Army each year. Together with other cuts, the Navy and Air Force would each get $40 billion.<\/p>\n

From Stars and Stripes:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In the report, Dahmer does not take a position on how big the DOD budget should be. But without a big boost in expenditures, he wrote, the Pentagon would need to search for savings or “bill payers” to surge capabilities required to deter potential Chinese aggression against Taiwan, Okinawa or the Philippines.<\/p>\n

“One of the largest bill payers in resourcing the strategy of denial should be the Army,” the report said.<\/p>\n

The strategy targets both the Army’s active-duty cohort and the National Guard and calls for deactivation of four Stryker brigades, six infantry brigades and two aviation brigades.<\/p>\n

Also headed to the chopping block would be a number of Army ground vehicle and aviation modernization and procurement programs, and all the Air Force’s A-10C aircraft would be retired, according to the report’s recommendations.<\/p>\n

Drastic reductions would also be made in the DOD civilian workforce under Dahmer’s prescriptions. For the Army to avoid big cuts while still meeting Pentagon objectives in the Pacific, DOD would need a roughly 10% annual budget increase, the report said.<\/p>\n

Overall, Dahmer’s report recommends about $70 billion less annually for the Army, which along with other cuts would give about $40 billion more apiece to the Navy and Air Force.<\/p>\n

The realignment he calls for in the report would also exact a heavy toll on the security structures that Europe has been relying on for over a decade. For one thing, the U.S. European Command mission would be slashed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vandiver, J. (2025, January 22). Deep cuts in Army, EUCOM downsizing among plans pushed by 2 Trump defense strategists. Stars and Stripes<\/em>. Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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