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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaapk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Do you agree that we have a significant readiness problem across the services, especially for the wide variety of contingencies that we've got to face? -Rep. Mac Thornberry (R- TX), Chairman of the HouseArmed Services Committeespeaking at a March 16 hearing Chairman, I do, and I think those are accurate reflections of the force as a whole. -General Joseph F Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefsof StaffI n March 2015, the military's senior commanders and civilian leaders painted a somber picture of military readiness in a series of congressional hearings. Reflecting on the preceding years, they described, in the language of the Pentagon, a military driven to the ragged edge of readiness.2 What they meant was that the military could meet the demands of the day but would not be able to handle a major crisis quickly and decisively, as detailed in volume one of thisseries.3 A year later, despite Congress providing hope of budgetary stability through the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, the military has stumbled past the ragged edgeof readiness; it is not even ableto meet its day-to-day requirements in full.4 Moreover, the Navy and Army are further from full readiness now than they were ayear ago. When the Washington Timeswarned in March, U.S. Military's Ability to Fight Major Overseas War in Doubt, it accurately captured the message the senior command had conveyed.5 But in some ways, the equally troubling message- notable for how it differs from the previous year's-lies in how each service is struggling just to meet the requirements of current day-to-day operations. AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE1 1

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