The 2011 Budget Control Act

While Afghanistan is still in the middle of the war, the Obama administration proposed a plan to cut billions of defense costs over the next decade. According to the 2011 Budget Management Act passed by Congress, the Department of Defense (DOD) has to reduce $ 487 billion over the next decade and $ 259 billion over the next five years. As attacks continue, defense expenses will decrease by more than $ 50 billion annually in FY 2021. This will almost trill the total reduction in the next 10 years.

According to the Department of Defense, the White House, and Congressional officials who manage military budgets, this amount is too small, at the expense of the reduction needed to cut spending under the 2011 Budget Control Act. They believe that the upper limit achieved by 2021 is severe and may prevent US forces from being sufficiently funded to cope with increasing risks. This research has the opposite view. Since most of current expenditures can not tolerate actual national security threats, it advocates lowering the ceiling and reducing the military budget. After that, this study examined other ways to reduce the military budget and proposed a theoretical basis to use a large strategy of detention to guide reduction. Finally, this study discussed specific areas of budget cuts.

On December 5, 2012, the US Department of Defense announced plans to automatically reduce expenditures including $ 500 billion and $ 487 billion for the 2011 Budget Control Act for financial cliffs. According to politics, the US Department of Defense refused to explain to the House Council expropriation committee to control federal expenditure, including finance cliff plans. Because of "a wide range of serious internal control deficiencies, significant uncertainties and other limitations," the Government Accountability Office was unable to submit an audit opinion on the US Government's 2010 financial statements. GAO stated that the main obstacle to its audit opinion is "to make the financial statements unrecognizable due to the Pentagon's serious financial management problems".