Clear and precise and to get the pentagon to react in in doing so before it is too late. It to succeed to make that offset strategy real so it is more satisfying. You are up. Give us another perspective. And that terminology of spoiler alert with that budget request to throw cold water on it. And the perspective of the budget that came over recently. And what we will have with the new administration in place. The reality is and looking at the house of representatives of the of budget of 30 billion debate with the defense hawks and speaker ryan to see that budget expressed in oco which is roughly 23 billion higher. So even with the budget deal have not seen the debate to go beyond more than 10 or 20 year 30 million despite having the majority to put in for that last budget request the us senate announced a hearing or a budget that is essentially for them. We have a of a great discussion of the architecture of deep and important thinking that they probably will not have Appropriations Bi
We do that with a budget deal, it didnt take a billion for that. So if youre going to add another 18 billion or so and oak oh within the house of publican caucus right now they will not go along with it. The strategy has been floated that maybe you wait and have an additional request in the next administration. You basically pond and then wait for a new administration and new Congress Takes office and then try to take a new higher level of funding them. What do people think about that. It is very uncertain what would happen because of the election. The trick here is whether if i can go back to the crs, the trick here is timing. What is the risk of the weight in a transition year despite whoever comes in, whatever party comes in, there is always a. Of time sometimes a very substantial, think during the Bush Administration there is quick action to increase the Defense Budget but there is a huge risk. Of course that could be a strategy but timing on it, who comes in with the contents of i