Originally Posted by
Riddler
I think part of the problem is that all of the GWOT and Overseas Contingency funds now must come out of the services baseline budget, and those baseline budgets just got cut by the $1.2T over 10 years. And oh-by-the-way, the USAF isn't allowed to close any bases or retire any old airplanes.
GWOT/OCO is winding down to low intensity and relatively lower costs, especially once we are out of AFG.
The only wildcard is Iran...our readiness there has piggy-backed on the OCO assets in the AOR.