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Wild ride on the Trump defense budget

December 12, 2018 Eric Lofgren 0

It is interesting how fragile the DOD is with respect to small changes in the budget plans. We find strong push-back from defense insiders that modest cuts will lead to large risks. Either you scale back military operations or you cut investment in new systems …

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