Pentagon War Budget Still Unknown
Apr 17, 2013
Military.com | by Brendan McGarry
The U.S. Defense Department's proposed budget for the war in Afghanistan may not come for several more weeks, as the top commander mulls how many troops should stay in the country.
The Pentagon requested a $615 billion overall spending plan for fiscal 2014, beginning on Oct. 1. That includes a base budget of $526.6 billion and a placeholder value of $88.5 billion for the war, known in military parlance as Overseas Contingency Operations, or OCO.
Decisions about how many U.S. troops to keep in Afghanistan “were delayed in order to provide commanders enough time to fully assess requirements," Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Wednesday in prepared remarks to the Senate Armed Services Committee. "We will soon be submitting an OCO budget amendment with a revised level and account-level detail."
How soon is unclear.
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