Politico: “Ex-generals urge Congress to fund Obama int’l affairs budget”
“Ex-generals urge Congress to fund Obama int’l affairs budget”
By Laura Rozen
Politico
March 10, 2010
Joining recent calls by Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen to expand U.S. civilian capacities to reduce dependence on the military, some 50 former three and four star generals and flag officers have written Congress urging then to pass the Obama administration’s $58.5 billion FY 2011 international affairs budget.
The International Affairs budget remains “under-funded, representing just 1.4 of the entire federal budget and less than 7% of total national security funding,” the former military leaders, led by former Marine Corps commandant Gen. Michael W. Hagee and former U.S. Coast Guard commandant Adm. James M. Loy, the chairs of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition’s National Security Advisory Council, write, in the letter released today by the US Global Leadership Coalition.
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