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https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R44519Часть 1. Седативная: везде "a decline" (снижение, сокращение, уменьшение).
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Overseas Contingency Operations Funding:
Background and Status Congressional interest in Overseas Contingency Operation (OCO) funding has continued as Members debate ways of funding priorities without breaching discretionary spending limits set in law.
Trends in OCO Funding and Troop Levels OCO funding for DOD has not decreased at the same rate as the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria has decreased.
For example, the number of U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria decreased
from
a peak of 187,000 personnel in FY2008 (including 148,000 in Iraq and 39,000 in Afghanistan) to an assumed level of nearly 18,000 personnel in FY2019 (including 11,958 personnel in Afghanistan and 5,765 personnel in Iraq and Syria) — a decline of approximately 169,000 personnel (90%).
Meanwhile,
OCO funding decreased from a peak of $187 billion in FY2008 to $69 billion in FY2019 —
a decline of approximately $118 billion (63%). While the number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria has decreased since FY2009, the number of U.S. troops deployed or stationed elsewhere to support those personnel has fallen by a lesser degree and, in recent years, remained relatively steady.
In FY2019 budget documents, the Department of Defense includes a force level assumption of 11,958 personnel in Afghanistan for budgeting purposes (average annual troop strength), but acknowledged a “current” force level of 14,000 personnel in the country following an increase of 3,500 personnel and a change in accounting methodology.
FY 2009 is the earliest year for which DOD reported the number of support personnel. other countries (including those stationed in the continental United States or otherwise mobilized)
decreased from 112,000 personnel in FY2009 to an assumed level of 76,073 personnel in FY2019 — a decline of 35,927 personnel (32%). In addition, when these support forces are combined with in -country force levels, the total force level decreases by a percentage more similar to the OCO budget, from 297,000 personnel in FY2009 to an assumed level of 93,796 personnel in FY2019— a decline of 203,204 personnel (68%) (see Figure 6).
Figure 6 . Number of Operational and Support Forces for Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, and DOD OCO
Appropriations, FY2009-FY2019
Часть 2. Тонизирующая. Дающая повод для размышлений.
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President’s FY2020 OCO Request
Proposed Increase in Defense OCO Tied to Spending Caps The FY2020 President’ s budget request
рroposed more than doubling OCO defense funding to fund national defense at a higher level than the Budget Control Act (BCA) allowed: “In order to fully resource national defense requirements, funding above the current law caps will also be necessary.
The Budget therefore increases OCO amounts in [FY]2020 and [FY]2021 to nearly $165 billion and $156 billion, respectively. These amounts fund direct war costs, enduring in theater support, and certain base budget requirements” The request marked a departure from a previous DOD plan to shift more OCO funding into the regular budget, as projected in the FY2019 request. Consistent with the previous year’s request, the Administration did not request funding for foreign affairs OCO for FY2020.
The FY2020 request includes $165 billion for OCO defense funding — $96 billion (139%) more than the amount appropriated for FY2019. OMB projected more than doubling OCO funding from $69 billion in FY2019 to $165 billion in FY2020 and to $156 billion in FY2021 — the final two years of BCA caps — then reducing OCO funding to $20 billion in FY2022 and FY2023 and to $ 10 billion beginning in FY2024 (see Figure 9).
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The OCO request assumes a total force level (average annual troop strength) of 87,822 personnel
for FY2020.
That figure includes the following:
15,000 primarily in Afghanistan (OFS);
7,200 primarily in Iraq and Syria (OIR);
46,473 for in - theater support;
19,149 primarily in the continental United States (CONUS) or otherwise mobilized (see Figure 11).