UNSUSTAINABLE COSTS?

摘要

A recently published report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a nonpartisan think tank, has repackaged old, outdated stats to argue military personnel costs are too high and "unsustainable." The authors suggestions include cutting annual pay raises, putting more money into skill-targeted bonuses, shifting more health costs to military beneficiaries, and considering further housing allowance reductions, among others. The report may have a 2021 date on it, but it's a bald-faced rehash of statistics from almost a decade ago, comparing personnel cost changes between 2000 and 2012.